Rita Willett

Baptism

Rita Willet tells the story of Guy and his unconventional journey to baptism.

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Angela Alaimo O’Donnell

Shoshana’s Song

She rode out to sea at the wheel of the rented boat, her hair wild in the wind.

Schuy R. Weishaar

The Dyslexic Jew

I A dilapidated yellow ice cream truck parked outside the fenced microwave tower, about a mile outside the tiny township of Cisco, Illinois. Aside from the few silver grain silos and the blinking elevator at the Co-op in town, the buzzing tower was the only vertical sign of human progress in the expanse of corn, […]

Debra Salazar

Recycling

In this creative nonfiction piece, a woman recycles her dead lover’s computer and discovers the difficulty of letting go.

Marjorie Maddox

Rough Drafts

In this short story, Marjorie Maddox provides an insightful and poetic look into the lives of people with masochistic pathologies, people who when “eating an apple [bite] right into the bruise” and can’t help but perpetuate relational and psychological self-harm.