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Story: The Election

By: Reese Scott They all waited till it was daylight. All the homes. All the apartments. All the cars. All the ferries. All the planes stopped. Each person went outside making sure that they had removed their modern day white…

Story: Armless

By: Sri Ram “So, hunting for a job you ended up in here?” Ryan asked. “Yes. Is there a problem with it?” David replied politely. “There is a problem dude. Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror? You…

Poem: No

By: Denise Marques Leitão No, no. I’m not aiming for some pre-established aesthetic. I want to be willing to be ridiculous, pathetic. Tear away all these layers that have never kept me safe. Why lacquer my words then? Instead, I’ll speak…

Poem: ‘C’ for Moon?

By: Denise Marques Leitão As a child I learned to identify the crescent moon in the sky. I also learned that the World is round but I didn’t know things would be so different from upside down. At school, the teacher…

Poem: Water Wise

By: Denise Marques Leitão My wish, my wish, my wish is to be wise like water, supple like water, strong like water. My wish is to flow and never stop. Float to the skies, move with the wind, then fall and…

Poem: These Figures

By: Robert A. Davies Some with blank faces human and not – these figures I see as I lie in bed prepared to sleep – figures that fade dissolve into walls. Circling in the dark skimming my head — crimson dragons,…

Poem: Winter 2015 in Western Oregon

By: Robert A. Davies In our warmest winter ever a winter with many dry days my friend misses the rain that winter rain constant so constant that we scream for an occasional sunny day and then for the usual week of…

Poem: Endings

By: Robert A. Davies  I lay among the trees. It was a soft fall but I just stayed there listening to the river, gazing at pieces of sky. I had once found a deer nearby its head and neck gone. Each…