Fiction
Pickpocket

Pickpocket

April 2017 | view this story as a .pdf By William Hall Richard had never broken the law, not even a speeding ticket, but opening the door to his home–still mine, he told himself–felt like a burglary. Sliding into the darkened mud room, he tripped over a doormat the...

The Shirt

The Shirt

February/March 2017 | view this story as a .pdf By John Manderino Are you going to wear that?” Jill asked, brushing her hair, looking at Bob in her dressing table mirror. “I thought I might,” he said by the closet, buttoning. “Why? You don’t like it?” “Didn’t say...

Parlor Tricks 

Parlor Tricks 

December 2016
Voila!” He presented the bouquet of red carnations with a flourish.

Snow Birds

Snow Birds

The floor drain between my legs was underneath a layer of ice. Craig and I had broken into an abandoned building on the darker edge of what may have been Skowhegan, and we decided to rest a while instead of continuing on in darkness.

St. Anthony’s

St. Anthony’s

We’d been playing pretend for almost a year and he still wouldn’t go back to his life. Meade wouldn’t acknowledge he had another life at all, though he’d bring me into it in ways, mentioning how Cole seemed to like me, driving me by the horse farm where he and Cole and his wife had lived before the great domestic unraveling commenced and she moved out to Deer Isle.

Breezy

Breezy

Fiction By Bruce Pratt

The Guest

The Guest

New fiction by AWP winner Joan Connor