“The Worst” by Shala Erlich I thought the worst was over. Surgery, chemo, hormonal treatment, which they don’t tell you is actually hormone-blocking treatment. So then: hot flashes, crappy sleep, looking for clothes that disguise my lopsided chest. But I’m still here, mostly, and without the cancer. My husband is Read more…
“Clinton Lake” by Chloe Chun Seim Every time they got together, it was like this. The sister would go and visit the brother in their hometown, or the brother would come and see the sister in her college town. Almost always, it was the sister driving to meet the brother, Read more…
“Desert Animals” by Marie Baleo 1. Outside of the borders of our town, to the west, there lives a witch, in a ranch by a lake where no one ever goes. The boys watch her, lying on their stomachs behind the bushes, gravel biting their knees, dust clinging to their Read more…
PUSHCART NOMINATIONS Fiction “Pictures of the Dead,” by Kelly Kathleen Ferguson (Issue 24.1, Spring 2017) “The New Air Has Come Breathing” by Jon Chaiim McConnell (Issue 24.2 Fall 2017) Poetry “Learning to Leave a Bad Thing Alone,” by Stevie Edwards (Issue 24.1, Spring 2017) “Apparition” by Jessica Lynn Suchon Read more…
Y: Where are you from and where are you now? How does (or doesn’t) place influence your work? DP: I grew up in New York City, currently live in Cincinnati, and have mostly lived in the Midwest in between. Living in Ohio as a New Yorker I do feel a Read more…