Bermudiana
“Like the country you are/ named for, used to being un-/ noticed for centuries at sea…” Poem of the Week (December 23), by Nancy Anne Miller.
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Burn On
“Dad, who mocked religion,/ heard something singing…” Weekend Poem, by David Sullivan.
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Three Pieces of Flash Fiction
“The western winds overwhelmed me, blew my garage open, sucked my tuba into the road, dragged it down the pebbly pavement. Sparks flew from its brass. The wind drove the sparks deep into the chaparral.” Story of the Week (December 19), by Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois.
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Embracing the Circle
“You threw everything into it/ paintbrushes, sweat, ruminations…” Poem of the Week (December 16), by Shikha Malaviya.
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Talk from the Cylinder
“But by sundown their empathy has its limit for me…/a jew to be despised.” Weekend poem, by Arturo Desimone.
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Mall-Head
“Soon, an explosion tears my wife’s head into bloody pieces of meat – and then construction begins. I feel tired…” Story of the Week (December 12), by Zoltán Komor.
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Blood and cardboard
“life made you expert at hiding/… no one sees you and the wounds/ heal better in the darkness.” Poem of the Week (December 9), by Daniel von der Embse.
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in the age of globalization
“the plastic is getting dirty,/ and i need to renew my nice, healthy/ amerikan passport.” Weekend poem, by Shana Bulhan Haydock.
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His Final Pages
“For the next ten years, tormented by such anxiety that I made every trip as short as I could, I was not to leave the house more than fifteen times.” Story of the Week (December 5), by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud. Translated from French by Edward Gauvin.
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Barrel
“…they turned the barrel towards us/ but I didn’t see it, I was busy pulling that boy down, underneath/ my guard…” Poem of the Week (December 2), by Deonte Osayande
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