Then and Now / Steve Poleskie

Then and Now / Steve Poleskie

photographer unknown The author wearing one of the “magic shirts” in his Cornell studio, ca 1992 * * CHAIN MAN’S FREE STORE   by Stephen Poleskie   The shirt I am wearing while writing this piece is over forty-five years old. It is still in perfect...
Karen Schubert/Fiction

Karen Schubert/Fiction

Moving Box by ChristianReese   * * Saving a Space   by Karen Schubert     The blueberry ginger muffins were still warm, so I’d left the basket uncovered. I was balancing it and a thermos of coffee with one hand, using the other to get around a box that...

Mollie McNeil/Fiction

      Underpass     by  Mollie McNeil     I’m stuck in my babysitter’s broken-down Toyota at a stinky gas station, but I don’t really mind because I’m gliding Wanton Red across my lips. Mwah! I kiss the rearview mirror. Don’t you...

Dió-genes Abréu/Poetry

      THIS NEGRO   This negro doesn’t speak of rivers, I speak of Haitian children whipped by misery and denied a nationality;   this negro doesn’t speak of rivers, there are other currents marking the cartography of this map we call Republic;...
Diner Stories/Book Review

Diner Stories/Book Review

    Diner Stories: Off the Menu Edited by Daniel McTaggart         Mountain State Press Inc., Charleston, WV, 25304 www.mountainstatepress.org Order from Amazon.com ISBN: 978-0-941092-71-5 Published in 2015 234 pages, 6” x 9”, Paperback,...