Amie Whittemore is an educator and co-founder of the Charlottesville Reading Series. She earned her MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in North American Review, Smartish Pace, Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review Poem of the Week, Yemassee, Cimarron Review, The Hollins Critic, Sycamore Review, and elsewhere. She … Continue reading Sideways Lavender by Amie Whittemore
Janet Haigh was raised in the wilds of Tasmania and her writing is full of magic and myth. Her works have been published in Aurealis, Coastlines, The Flash Fiction Press, Newcastle Herald, and the speculative fiction anthology Sproutlings. She currently lives in Newcastle with her two delightful rug-rats and their witty father. I drag the … Continue reading By Anchor and Asphalt by Janet Haigh
J.G. Formato is a writer and elementary school teacher from North Florida. She’s moved far from the lake to a little house in the woods, where she lives with her beautiful family. Her short fiction has appeared in Giants and Ogres(Fairy Tale Villains Reimagined), freeze frame fiction, and Youth Imagination Magazine. I was six when Lake … Continue reading Oh, Keep Me by Jaime Formato
Duncan lives and writes in South Portland, Maine, where he works from home while catering to the needs of three small mammals (two of them human). Find more of his stories at www.duncanwhitmire.com and follow him on Twitter at @duncanwhitmire. Steven will probably quit when he gets to the new office. He’ll probably never even … Continue reading Five Hundred Years and Back by Duncan Whitmire
Nicole Janeway lives in Barcelona, where she writes for citypassproject.com. She loves dogs, running in the mountains, and café con leche. Her writing has appeared in Cicada and Scarlet Leaf Review. “My grandfather’s clock was too tall for its shelf, so it stood ninety years on the floor. It was taller by half than the old man himself, … Continue reading Treasure and Pride by Nicole Janeway
Toti O’Brien was born in Rome, and lives in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Indiana Voice, Surreal Poetics, LitBreak, and Door Is A Jar, among other journals and anthologies. More about her can be found at totihan.net/writer.html I’ve made my bed in the workshop, right under the window. The glass panes are coated … Continue reading Long Distance by Toti O’Brien
I wake up on the back of an alligator crawling slowly down Main Street. Trumpets blare. Knights with shields of flame and blood-encrusted swords descend on the train depot at the end of the drag. They’re on the march, hunting the last big game. General Slaughter wants a new head on his wall. *** General … Continue reading A Long, Long Dog, Having Chased its Orbited Tail by Nolan Liebert
It’s the kind of night that beckons you home. A night for old pyjamas, the stink of burning dust from the storage heater, and the same four channels—but your stop is getting closer and you haven’t pressed the bell. The two old ladies sitting together in the disabled seats always get the number thirteen on … Continue reading Four Stops by G.V. Anderson
The paintings never sold, so Cora hung them on the walls. Of course, she understood why they frightened people; peripherally, they seemed to move. If you glanced at them out of the corner of your eye, you might swear you saw the waters shimmer, a set of eyes blink, or the wave of a mermaid’s … Continue reading The Painted Sea by Lucy Ledger
My sister is a chameleon, always ready to become whoever is needed to seal the fissures in our lives. She put on Houdini’s skin first, one snowed-in February morning. My mother and I watched her slither out of a pair of bike chains as a blizzard roared through our zip code. Each time she escaped she’d … Continue reading The Lost and Found of What We Need by Evan Mallon