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Demeter
Fiona Benson
‘I head down the path hoping she’ll come / but when I look back she’s gone and my own voice / snags at her name like barbed wire on skin.’
Printable
Toh EnJoe
‘Which is scarier: that the past could actually change or that you could just think it did?’
Toboggan Run
Fiona Benson
‘What would I give / to be one of those swimmers in all this snow, / swallowed by the cold and the night’s strange radiance?’
The More We Think About It
Michael Earl Craig
‘Yeah, something has slapped us. / We have definitely seen something.’
Off the Road
Andrew Brown
‘She acted as if her own desires magnetized the world, and when you were close to her, she magnetized your moral compass too.’
Quarter Past Midnight
Marie-Helene Bertino
‘Flute-like, gauze-filled, late-afternoon sunshine. Rainbow bracelets on the carpet. They use their tongues to wet their lips. Girls.’
Advice Column
Kazim Ali
‘Me always untorn and enslaved / Weird notions of gender and ground / Nothing but you between me and god.’
Spelling Problem
Lydia Davis
‘A woman from Barnard College calls me and asks if I would please spell ‘hemorrhaging’ for her.’
Picnic
Emily Berry
‘Watching the sea is like watching something in pieces continually striving to be whole / Imagine trying to pick up a piece of the sea and show it to a person / I tried to do that.’
The Case of the Missing Miss Vincent
Kevin Brockmeier
‘There is a sound to finishing a story like the first note of the 3.30 bell. Inside him a great crowd goes pouring into the daylight.’
Toh EnJoe | First Sentence
Toh EnJoe
‘I think that the thing called thought can be viewed as rooted in the very real phenomenon of neurons firing.’
