Special Issue: Triptychs
This special issue features work published as part of our “Triptych” feature, including work by Meg Pokrass, Mary Thompson, Paul Beckman, Jude Higgins, Elisabeth Ingram Wallace, and more.
Special Issue: Anton Chekhov Prize for Very Short Fiction 2020
Congratulations to Amina Gautier, Cyn Nooney, Emily Kiernan, Luke Rolfes, and all of our finalists. Special thanks to guest judge Hugh Behm-Steinberg.
The Birds of Joy by Luke Rolfes
Down the hall of screams, men in plastic suits go by with another body in a wheelbarrow. The fifth one today—a woman in her mid-sixties.
My Grandmother in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1943 When They Were Building an Atomic Bomb by Emily Kiernan
Lucy arrived into a city of clattering. Metal on metal on packed dirt on rail ties on muddy standing water on boardwalks on cement on flesh on leather on canvas on metal on metal on earth.
Tiers of Joy by Cyn Nooney
My mom sent me to Carmen’s house with banana bread because her brother Theo died. He had just turned seventeen.