The question rises without permission, like the sun or moon. You must struggle with this question, with where it leads, with what it asks of you. A tree once stood here, did it not? I’m sure of it, you think. I’m sure. Look around, find your bearings, remember your time here before. Stare at the sawdust under your feet, fresh with the faintness of gasoline soaked into what remains […]
Ed Higgins | formation of a black (w)hole
who can quite say when careless talk & confidence slips into that other charged thing so minimal at first then nova explosions– outer layers once held by gravity, other stable Einsteinium equations, collapsed inside to those dense brilliant colors whose appearance you’d forgotten completely but for the occasional misty love lyric on the car stereo driving down that quite ordinary road of what passes for life sometimes or fate if […]
Brian Doyle | Stigmata
October. Patient is forty years old. Caucasian male, Catholic priest. Heartbeat sound, blood pressure normal, slightly underweight for height. Complaint: pain in hands, feet, and lower left abdomen. Symptoms first manifested five weeks ago. Patient thought nothing of it, chalked it up to encroaching age, entropy, etc. Pain in abdomen increasingly severe however and during visit today patient was scanned for appendicitis, colon blockage, hernia, etc. No evident cause found. […]
Sarah Westwood | My recently completed heartbreak collection
Brendan, Jeff, Kris, Lorenzo, Joey, John, Evan, Matt, Kyle, and Dan. These are the men in my curio cabinet of romance, men who each elicited some sort of feeling strong enough to brand his name on my heart. Some of them were perfectly lovely, some unnecessarily disrespectful, some criminally clueless, and some simply cruel. For now, I’ve locked the door on this cabinet of curiosities and stowed the key. Currently, […]
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