August 2026
New Fiction by Ben Yeager: “Big Game”
He looked for disturbances on the smooth, blue horizon, birds diving, fish breaking the surface. Out to sea He saw spilled-ink patches: schools of menhaden. The presence of forage fish injected air into the atavistic depths of his blood. They signified feeding, the violence of an unseen universe.
New Fiction by Colin W. Sargent: Godwit’s End
A flock of birds with glider wingspans and needle beaks rose from the waves as they began their 7,000-mile journey to the Arctic Circle. …
New Fiction by Sara Doty: Vermillion
As I acclimated to the heat, I noticed my skin’s weight for the first time. My subcutaneous fat layer …
New Nonfiction by Erick L. Sokn: You Can Never Know for Sure
As a military police officer in the 1970s, I responded to multiple shots fired calls, homicides, vehic…
New Poetry by J. Raymond Bennett: “Tourniquet” and “Different than Before”
New poems by J. Raymond Bennett: “Tourniquet” and “Different Than Before”
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New Poetry by Peter Newall: “Deserters”
New poem by Peter Newall: “Deserters”
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