Drowned River: Fiction by Dale Corvino

Winner of the Christopher Hewitt Award 2015: Fiction Drowned River by Dale Corvino “Good morning, papi, happy Friday,” I greet the bakery owner, a big, hairy Syrian,…

The Challenge of Adherence: Poetry by Noah Stetzer

Though it lacks the deliberateness of fire setting the bridges or boats once one’s passed into strange lands or foe’s territory— dark Rubicon crossed over on horseback, fighting…

As If: Fiction by Norman Belanger

What time is it?” He sighs, drowsy from a day at the beach. I move over so he can put down his bag. “The clock…

Inoculations: Poetry by Raymond Luczak

in memory of Bruce Hlibok (1960-1995) Funny how much New York’s changed since you died. Rents have gone way, way up. Brooklyn is shockingly hip…

Quarterly: Poetry by Noah Stetzer

Quarterly Every ninety days you will sit and you will wait in a blank little room at the clinic by yourself, while the doctors and the nurses…

It’s Not Over: Poetry by Joy Gaines-Friedler

The last of the sun is a silver filament through the glazed white elms. Rebirth clings the way that image of you—softer now remains constant. There is…

Two Poems by Noah Stetzer

Two Poems by Noah Stetzer Measure of a Man Numbers crowd this room: T-cells, viral load, telephone, clocks, oxygen, and the day. Longitude and latitude place us here in the…

This Is A Test: Poetry by Alicia Mountain

This Is a Test Do you recoil like you should when the boy says clean to talk about his body? In the crook of your arm you cradle a…