Bleat / Ernest Gordon Taulbee
The Billy goat ate three beer cans in the morning. By evening, it was on its side bleating in a slow and mournful cadence. It was as if...
Crescendo / Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos
Pianissimo > They were rehearsing a Mozart concerto. Viola had recently joined the orchestra. He wasn’t quite good enough, but the chair...
Sing It, Maybe They'll Understand / Timothy Boudreau
In the morning Eileen plays her late father’s piano, an improvisation in A-minor: the chord followed by a cluster of cascading notes,...
Fed / Michael Chin
Rosaline peeled back the tin foil on the lasagna. The mozzarella bubbled and steam rose. She smelled Sunday dinner at her mother’s house...
Turquoise / Charlotte Hamrick
Recuperating on a rubber raft in a motel swimming pool after driving 11 hours through the netherlands of south Texas, snorting and...
Rooks & Jackdaws: A Fable / Steve Lambert
Cruelty and Indifference fell in love and had a child whom they named Nature. Nature—good and beautiful, but the child of its...
Things That Need to Be Washed / Patricia Q. Bidar
These clammy armpits and legs. The never-empty hampers of clothing with the flattened socks that line their bottoms. The stack of...