Elisabeth Adwin Edwards – The Nurse
The Nurse You can feel his fingers can’t you wrapped in smooth blue nitrile how they taper to their ends almost feminine elegant, surprising given the ten years he’s spent holding death’s messes in his hands as he cradles your chin softly telling you Let’s load up you who may or may not hear, your […]
Pamela Lucinda Moss – The Stories We Tell
The Stories We Tell Sometimes I say my father is a truck driver even though the man can’t manage to back the minivan out of our driveway without branches etching lines on the passenger side. I’ve always been the only kid at school with a scientist for a father, let alone an entomologist for a […]
Sharon Hashimoto – What Energies Hold Us Together
What Energies Hold Us Together Inside the car, two voices strike the tinted windshield and bounce back— echoes of the same argument about love, about who gives and who takes while the sun blazes down, blistering red rashes on the driver’s forearm. A swerve in the road; the steering wheel slides through fingers and a […]
William Orem – “You are a hundred wild centuries”
“You are a hundred wild centuries” Next to the basil and frothy dill that Spring and the chives in obedient rows she planted catnip, fingering the paper sleeves of seed at the garden store, nothing but curious. For weeks afterward, she forgot. Planting: there was her daughter’s lost tooth (when did they start being worth […]
