St. George on a Cloudy Day
by Devan Collins Del Conte issue 73 Having graduated, Gage, Fletcher, and I, we felt at once very old and very young, and like we’d stay that way forever. Before we left Charleston, we’d visited the grimy apartment in Mt. Pleasant where we stocked up with a half ounce of medical-grade weed and an eight […]
Countdown to a New Year
by Katie Young Foster issue 72 10 In the bathtub, a woman reads a romance novel on her phone. 9 Two states away, a man watches the woman as she reads. The man, silent, sits in his kitchen eating a salad from Arby’s. His computer is open. On the screen: frequent flashes of green-painted toenails […]
The Empathy Chart
by Wendy J. Fox issue 74 You and I were at a party somewhere when we first met, and we had to talk about the weather, as people do. We were living in Denver, Colorado, where the mountains let out their breath and bled into the plains, and we’d long since come to accept, if […]
Night, This River
by Khanh Ha Winner of the James Knudsen Prize for Fiction issue 75 1. They came to a river town. After she brought the boat to a dock, she went up the cement steps, onto a narrow street, and into a shop shaded by a yellow awning. The boy stood up in the boat, looking […]