I grew up knowing my father was maybe a Gypsy, the kind that travelled around Ireland with beautiful spotted horses and painted caravan wagons. Or maybe my mother, like Janet of Carterhaugh, met Tam Lin in the forest and battled for him with the Queen of Fairies. The government told me she was 32, he […]
Words From The Other Side
Gray People
For Youth Activities Counselors aboard my cruise ship, seeing consecutive blocks of “WASH” on the schedule could be a nightmare. We’d signed onto ship life because we wanted to goof off with kids all day, maybe revise our own childhoods to include copious amounts of adventure and sunshine. Nobody wanted to get stuck monitoring a […]
Holiday of the Flies
Day 1. It all started when someone forgot the cereal. Someone forgot to refill the cereal supplies at our coworking space. There are dozens of us, tech entrepreneurs who share desks in a large open-concept office where we work on our individual companies and projects. I run my writing business out of there, so I […]
The Reality of Our Hopes
The waiting room for surgical patient check-in plays CNN on the TV. A mother whose 14-year-old daughter was shot to death at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School two days ago is yelling at Donald Trump to do something. I change the channel to Animal Planet. Not because I don’t care, but because I care too […]
like a light
It was hard to remember the first drink, or what age I was. Probably a sip of beer at a family picnic or a quick sneak of Beefeater at Christmas. Whichever it was, it doesn’t matter now. Not that it ever really did. Because there’s been hundreds since and hundreds to come. There’s been enough […]
Pushcart Prize Nominations
We are proud to announce our 2017 Pushcart Prize nominations: “Bone Wars” by Laura Citino “Brothers” by Benjamin Reed “Tell Them a Pretty Story” by Terry Ann Thaxton “White is the Color of no One Knows What to Say” by Becca Borawski Jenkins “Even as an Airplane” by Amanda Chiado “Violations” by Shasta Grant
