ALL CREATIVE NONFICTION, FLASH FICTION & POEMS

ANNETTE MARIE SMITH

I don't know if anyone ever told you

but the cars actually like it when it rains. They like splashing through the puddles and using their wipers and defrosters with their...

VICTORIA TANKERSLEY

Sisyphus, the Minnesota Duck

In the Mississippi, just upstream from the Stone Arch Bridge, resides the duck Sisyphus, condemned for duck eternity to swim away from...

CASEY PATRICK

Fractures

Englewood pulls me when I’m most fractured. Frogtown was home for seventeen years before moving away; Infrequent visits thereafter made...

SAYMOUKDA DUANGPHOUXAY VONGSAY

When Everything Was Everything

I interrupted my class when I walked in, returned from an ESL session. Mr. Smith made everyone read out loud, stopping when they want to....

CASEY PATRICK

Migration

The day my hands turn to birds I’ll walk to the edge of the lake and release them to the sky. How could I keep such restlessness with me?...

ANNIE THOMPSON

city dawn

have you ever felt the night rise from the city? the plush dark sighs, and her breath fogs up the pane between planet and universe so...

CHARLES PATTERSON CURRY

heritage

smallpox scarlet fever cholera avarice these came with the earliest arrivals once ashore raced ahead devastated Susquehannock Munsee...

MARCIE RENDON

Wiigwaasabak

Our ancestors dreamt your future The iron rail, Angus cows slumbering in shorn prairie The buffalo remembered only on the metal That buys...