Good Mood by Joanna Ruocco
I am in a good mood, but birds are in a bad mood. What’s up, birds? This morning I did the stretches I never do, the hamstring stretches.
Downwinders by Sarah Blackman
Inside the body the baby is coiling, flexed, not on the way to becoming but already become. Mother is having a picnic with father and brother and sis.
Fable Number 1: Des Moines, Iowa by Luke Rolfes
A paperboy disappeared from the streets of Des Moines, Iowa when I was a baby. News of his absence rang through the state for years.
Issue 17: Guest Edited by Aimee Parkison
Featuring new flash by Luke Rolfes, Jan Stinchcomb , Joanna Ruocco, Sarah Blackman, Aurelie Sheehan, Carol Guess & Rochelle Hurt, George Looney, Evelyn Hampton, Jennifer Natalya Fink, Rob Roensch, Constance Squires, Christina Milletti, Mark DiFruscio, and Gretchen VanWormer.
Temp by Rob Roensch
The van had no side windows, the driver’s-side mirror dangled like a hand from a broken wrist, the passenger-side mirror and half the windshield were blurry and blue with ice from the storm, and the view out the back windows was blocked by boxes.