Issue 10 / Summer 2017
Creative Nonfiction
KNOWING JERRY
“Though I had known him for over forty years, I never really knew him. He was dying now in the hospice wing of the nursing home.”
POETIC DANCER
“I found my writing journal from 1986. This isn’t a remarkable discovery, except for the timing of finding it.”
AT THE FISHOUSE
“For three years in the 1970s my father lived in Malawi in an abandoned fish warehouse that he converted into a home with the help of his friend Vaughan and a group of Malawian day laborers.”
Fiction
A PRESENCE IN GRAVES
“It was a dog—or at least, it was once. The decaying carcass of a massive wolfhound lay right in front of them, covered in pine branches.”
STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE
“The veteran relief pitcher worried the ball with his fingers, shaking off every sign the catcher offered.”
Y UNDER THE OCEAN
“Y needs the ocean the way a thirsty tree welcomes a storm, lapping up waves even as they batter her, unraveling a thread here, a whole seam there.”