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Stories

Readers' Narratives
I fell in love with Birdman south of the Mekong. I loved his riff about heroin.
Poem of the Week
The pumpkins are looking up my skirt, making orange a kind of festive.
N30B Winners
Something has to be what this is, old and primitive, and it sounds like this.
Poem of the Week
The moon rescinds its blessing, rests its forehead on a crosier of ivory.
Poem of the Week
She was bad. A cool bad. All third-graders wanted bad like hers.
Story of the Week
We drove, talking fast, fast, fast. He was always going for my zipper.
Fiction
She stopped, turned toward him, placed her hand on his chest.
Narrative Outloud
Lynn Freed reads from her collection, The Curse of the Appropriate Man.
Narrative Outloud
I arrived that evening barefoot and swathed in a sort of striped toga.
Story of the Week
His eyes rested on the trees. By George, it’s like the garden of Eden.
There are epic fights, reckless sex, psychosomatic ailments, and a cast of casualties and enablers.
Readers' Narratives

Made in Texas

We have come out of a dark time, a cynical time bereft of humor and compassion. We can almost hear the poet breathe a sigh of relief at the thought that real people matter again.
First & Second Looks
Story of the Week
Nothing happened to him? Why, genius had happened to him!
Poem of the Week
All the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring.
Poetry
I’m always driving through the desert, on the interstate’s black river.
Fiction
Their leader is a badly wounded boy in need of wounding others.
First & Second Looks
The rest of my life would be measured in terms of phases of the moon.
Story of the Week
The baby in her belly is not a sibling, will never be their playmate.
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Idzia is a little monster. For a monster, though, she’s awfully cute.
Poem of the Week
Each time he retells that morning my dad forgets I was there too.
Poetry
I listened all my boyhood, but my listening couldn’t save me.
Fiction
Maybe that’s what she feels, not stranded, but suspended in time.
Poem of the Week
Ice and evergreen and sun; three moments arranged for human looking.
Story of the Week
I had pasted a pink Post-it to my phone screen that said DON’T DRINK.
Fiction
Oh shit! I had that a while ago. Didn’t think I still did. So, so sorry.
Narrative on the Road
We skip across the surface like a stone slung by a giant travel agent.
First & Second Looks
Poem of the Week
she will unchew the dried bulbs of history, spit them at the foot of her post.