Issue 93: 22 August 2019

Mamichu

By Robert Walton   “Mamichu, it’s cold!” I looked at Ivar. I looked at his knobby lump of a head, at his lips lying beneath his broken nose like twin dead slugs, at his eyes glistening beneath his granite ledge of a brow, eyes so small I never knew their color. There was no pleasure […]

At the Funeral of 50 Barefoot Men

By Amirah Al Wassif   once upon a time there was an ancient place called “Amon” village that very far spot where everybody talks about the river legend that very far spot where everybody knows how to distinguish the smell of fresh bread there, at the Amon village where all the folks live in their […]

People Keep Bothering Me with Details

By Pedro Hoffmeister   It’s beginning to snow in Tucson and it’s 65 degrees in Seattle, Washington in February But our president says… He’s tweeting about… And we should listen to him because he’s the best president we’ve had this entire year. That’s a fact. He’s our man. Our leader. Another fact: Lori Loughlin, Felicity […]

Man with a Knife

By Beth Levine   Imagine that this letter S floats off the page becomes a strong rope that wraps your hands together behind your back, like officers do before putting someone in the back of a police car. Imagine that this letter S floats off the page and becomes a second strong rope one end […]