Fiction

Long Exposure

Hala Alyan -

All week they’ve been talking about the fog. The weather channel warns of it, the vacationers bemoan...

Happy Adventure

Sharon Bala -

Hilda had dozed on the plane from Montreal and wandered out of Arrivals at St. John's in a disoriented haze. Caitlyn stood waiting at...

The First Taste

Jo Barchi -

It’s the fall of 2013 and I just found out I’m a faggot. Henry isn’t supposed to be a part of...

Auteur Theory

Fran Hoepfner -

A director was coming to Harper’s college campus to shoot a movie that fall. The night before she learned this information, Harper asked her roommate Anne...

Finding Houdini

Paola Ferrante -

Whatever Jeremy would say, the snakes were always a problem. I know if Jeremy told our story he would say he never saw the...

VJ Day

Kirstin Allio -

In August the manhole covers began to seep. Summer had the same texture as the local Eyewitness...

Peaches

E.M. Tran -

Peaches did not like her Chinese neighbors. Mai Phuong and Minh had moved last year into the Greek Revival mansion that the Fitzgeralds used...

To Be Another Than Myself

Caroline Beimford -

We didn’t know anyone in Bilbao, so we managed our expectations. We wandered through the old town, a knave of streets and warrens so narrow...

Dreaming in Tongues

Daphne Palasi Andreades -

Isabel sat at the back of the Adult Beginner’s English class with other Filipinos who already knew how to speak English, that language of the colonizers...

We Drew This Picture of JonBenét

Megan Walsh -

Bartholomew Baxter is the only boy who's nice to me. He's half a foot shorter than everyone else, and chunkier—he’s shaped like Theodore from ...