By Noah Leventhal the desert smells like Mother stones sundial their way across the dunes reeking of dust and blood and evaporation a lizard skitters across the scattered sand each wretched bump in its thorny skin a testament drooping brittle grass reaching up and down with thirst when the ground shakes when the wind dies […]
by stephanie roberts for Colin Kaepernick Uncle Wade (that stubborn mule), grumbled “Round them up!” In what direction? I wondered. The cane teams of the Caribbean? or way back to the cup and knuckle of Gold Continent and trace origin. “He’s half white.” I say, spitting cherry seed against our worn bleached deck a […]
By Dan McClenaghan There’s no telling how the frog got into the lettuce. Hopped up out of an irrigation furrow just prior to harvest is the best guess. What is certain is that he ended up in Jolene Rivard’s salad, a rainbow of raw vegetable matter collected by Jolene herself at the salad bar. She […]
By Cody Walker He thought he saw the Sort of Men He’d always Feared or Hated: He looked again, and found it was Eight Years, obliterated. “It’s Sessions . . . Flynn . . . it’s everyone Who—.” Silence, then. We waited. He thought he saw his Dumb Concerns (Exhausted, Getting Fat): He looked again, […]
