February 2019
In the Long Ago
What do you call a scab that covers the entirety of your skin—the organ that takes the brunt when everything goes well, when everything goes to shit?
Piltdown Awardeth . . . our first fiction prizes!
With no further ado, we’re pleased to announce the top three prizewinners in our 2018 Fall/Winter Fiction Contest!
Resurrection in Pivka
We know the feeling of two arms embracing. But what is the feeling of one arm embracing?
deux nuages
A moment: there’s nothing more brief or revisited; enjoyable or painful; life-changing or damning. Moments are the kindle of dreams and nightmares.
Super Mario Bros. Coin
We’re the most common item found in this two-bit overworld, but as we warped down the ultrasonic tunnel black, what I saw was a rather uncommon glow.
Elegy for Easy Seasons (or, Internal Seasons in Disarray)
Spring when knowledge felt like teenage love: blush, some words—branching out, tasting, opening, until the last hour of Summer light.
From Beyond Words
An agreement between rival yet tightly bound siblings casts eerie reverberations through one’s late-life pursuit of love.