Waterloo Talking Jønathan Lyons Hughes Avenue in Waterloo, Iowa, was not a new street, and not in a new neighborhood even back then, but with so many kids arriving on the scene, so many young mothers and so little traffic, the concrete seemed more like a playground, a surface suited more for children than for…
How Can I Tell You About San Francisco? Siamak Vossoughi It’s very funny to even imagine it, Trudie. You ever laugh just from the size of something? I mean, you ever stand back and look at something, and from nothing else but the way you can’t put your arms around it, you ever just laugh? That’s how it…
Canis Lupus Astra Killian Czuba The dogs woke up before we did. “Dog.” That was the first word we learned to recognize. This planet has been our home for forty-nine years. We tell time by the calendars sent with us from home. Home. “America.” This is the second word we learned. The tapes and pictures…
Be Fruitflies and Multiply Danielle Susi Adam and his wife were both naked and felt no shame. When they lay in bed after twenty-seven mediocre minutes of touching and tugging, Adam allowed his wife to put her warm ear to the inside of his bicep. She rested her hand against the side of his ribcage…
Ouroboros Owen Wynne Jones dream you watch yourself walking down the road leaving footprints visible to you but not to the you that you see. You walk unseen the streets of London. You see yourself walk through Kensington Gardens down the Broad Walk and you see you are alone. You leave the gardens and find…
