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Some Day All the Babies Will be Brown
by Jennifer Acker

April 17, 2019

A modest front yard featured three young, bitten trees, barely visible at this hour. The place had been recently painted, a subtle green Sunil... Read More...

Die Die Die
by Beth Alvarado

April 9, 2019

Nonfiction

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It was 1980, I’m going to guess. I had the news on while I was making dinner, so I must have been listening while I cooked and then peering in... Read More...

One Poem
by John Davis

April 7, 2019

Poetry

Click button above to hear John Davis read this poem, or click here to download poem in .mp3 format. Harmony Beyond the cluttered ... Read More...

A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture
by Stephanie Anderson

March 18, 2019

Nonfiction

I’m in western South Dakota, rolling across the prairie in a blue 1970s-era pickup truck, when I first see them. Buffalo—faraway brown dots on... Read More...

Two Pastorals
by Marvin Shackelford

March 5, 2019

Fiction

1

Loose Pastoral Beech Hill, Tennessee 1. One of the guys Jana brought down from Culleoka walks off up the hill and comes back later ... Read More...

One Poem
by David Axelrod

February 26, 2019

Poetry

1

Click button above to hear David Axelrod read this poem, or click here to download poem in .mp3 format. Memory-Hoard I. Contrails... Read More...

In the Frying Pan
by Mary Alice Long

February 15, 2019

Fiction

Ernest sat at the top of the steps of their new porch, thinking to go looking through unpacked boxes for a hose and sprinkler. He watched an a... Read More...