Highlighting recently released and forthcoming works by marginalized creators The Blue Door by Janice Deal Is a parent responsible for a child who commits a crime? If so, how can she deal with that burden? These are the questions that haunt Flo when her daughter Teddy plans to visit after a long separation. The prospect […]
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toil, ye lot | unmanned aero craft comms. |muslin walls | crowbar cracked the porcelain | family doll collectionrind oil | eyes of wild horse people | garland in pasture, twinkling garments halberdiers progress in phalanx | submerged vessel, ahoy & homewarddiscombobulated verse | atomic nonsense eponymous crime | said sin came natural | a […]
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wading in a lake of swing dance music, jeans rolled up to the knee-you were there with a sweat-soaked bandana on your head-this was a dance under twinkling electric lights in your backyard.the Moon was out, the stars were out, your smile was out, it was all gleaminglike a streetlight shining down on a graveyard […]
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Zigzag across the road only whenYou’re sure you’re safe, when the headlights aren’t burningXrays of your bones onto the concrete. Dark enoughWhere all i can see are the whites of your eyes. your Voice carries over distant traffic, jubilant and trembling.Unbelievable, how you carry onTough as teeth through the winter when the airScrapes at the insides […]
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Dear Father, Why did you keep taking me to your childhood home? Now that you’re dying, no one else wants to go there with me. My mother drives through in a rush, too spooked to stop more than a moment. Decrepit but still standing, then vacant, covered in weedy trees and vine, now cleared again, […]
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Since my dad died thirteen days before my bachelorette party, I have no choice but to bring him on the trip. Before I set off for Cancun, I pack all my white bikinis and show my fiancé my dad’s soul, which I’ve managed to place into a silver clamshell-shaped necklace. I kiss my fiancé goodbye, […]
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Sherry Shahan is a seventy-six-year-old pole-dancer who creates art in a laid-back California beach town. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize in Poetry and Short Fiction and Best American Short Stories.
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6/30: Small Harbor Publishing is currently accepting unpublished chapbook submissions of 20-50 pages. Submissions should include a title page, table of contents, and a list of acknowledgments for previously published work. Cover letter should include your name, contact information, and a brief bio. Simultaneous submissions are permitted. Attach your manuscript as a word or pdf attachment. 7/1: ANMLY […]
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she lies in her bed and tries to dream tries to make this world fade away because dreams are like bubbles of unreality popping and pearling iridescent shine addictive like the stuff in her father’s pipe smoke like haze like mist like dreams her dreams are safe her dreams are prophecies and she dreams of […]
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VAGABOND CITY 