Storystorm
Ritualizing Rejections
10 February 2021 on Blog, StorystormDuring the full moon in Leo, on the 28th of January, I wrote down the name of every literary magazine that rejected me on tiny pieces of paper. I then...
Poetry
“Catch and Release” by Kyle D. Craig
05 February 2021 on PoetryWhen I was a boy my father lifted the barbed-wire fence beyond which lay a pond teeming with bass, bluegill, catfish. We pulled worms from catalpa trees,punctured their bodies on...
Nonfiction
I’d love to have been a farmer by Sean Thomas Dougherty
18 December 2020 on Nonfictionwith a hundred acres, and a silo, a big green tractor, with a hound dog named Shiloh to ride shotgun, tending to the rows of corn, or sunflowers, endless fields...
Fiction
“autophagy” by an chang joon
10 December 2020 on FictionP eased the scope further into the stomach. The walls of flesh undulated slowly. He adjusted, following the gentle curvature of the esophagus. His scalp itched. He wiped the sweat...
Poetry
“Violent Epidemic” by Sarah Degner Riveros
04 December 2020 on PoetryWhen the neighbor kidshows up on the porch, clutching a flannelpillow, dressed in sweatpants and a t-shirt, shakes his dreads, stutters, “Hi, Mom, is John here?” You set down the...
Storystorm
Poetry While Driving
03 December 2020 on StorystormWhat are you listening to while you drive? There are long drives ahead of many of us this holiday season as we retreat to our quarantine dens and visit the...
Nonfiction
“Dr. Pepper” by Leanne Sowul
20 November 2020 on NonfictionIt was the spring of eighth grade, and Laura and I had fallen for the same guy. His real name was Derek, but between us we called him Dr. Pepper...
The Writer's Hot Seat
The Writer’s Hot Seat: James Patrick Kelly
18 November 2020 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatJames Patrick Kelly has won the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. His newest project is King of the Dogs, Queen of the Cats, a short novel from Subterranean Press. His...
Poetry
“You Say You Have No Title?” by Barbara Daniels
13 November 2020 on PoetryHere, take some of mine:“Poem Ending with a Tulip” “Weed of the Week” “Potato Soup” I know you’re committed to “Untitled,” thinkingit gives you the ultimate freedom. But I want...
Fiction
“We All Saw Clouds” by Octavia Bell
06 November 2020 on FictionMy brother has been dead seventy-three hours when I drive to the lake, on the day a village of ice-fishing houses is set up on the ice. It’s just after...
Storystorm
How Writing By Hand Could Change Your Creative Process
05 November 2020 on Blog, StorystormI write all my first drafts by hand. Pencil--a sassy little Muji mechanical sweetheart that only takes soft 0.5 lead. And paper--notebooks of all shapes and sizes, lined, unlined, free...
Poetry
Dear Julia
30 October 2020 on PoetryDo you remember roller-skating in the basement on snow days?We stumbled and soared, our feet heavy and strange, as snowflakestumbled down so fast outside the tiny window, like the Michigan...
