Fiction
Sept/Oct 2019
One Summer (Thomas and Anna)
That spring when the apple and cherry trees were in bloom, about four months before Thomas’s scheduled transfer to his unit’s school of administration, a young army nurse named Anna […]
Fiction
Fall 2013
The Dance of the Annunciation
from The Brunist Day of Wrath The Presbyterian manse lights are off and the curtains are open on this first night of April, and Prissy Tindle, who should perhaps at […]
Fiction
Winter 2005
Riddle
It is the lieutenant’s first execution. Five men are to die by firing squad, and his company has drawn the assignment. He does not look forward to it, but he […]
New Voices
Winter 2002
Body Games
Shelley Jackson is a gifted writer, illustrator, performer, and electronic artist who, very playfully, very disturbingly, takes the body apart and puts it back together again, always in startlingly imaginative […]
Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Celebration of the Nobel Prizes
Spring 2001
Dying Fathers: ‘Stirrings Still’
For nearly half a century, the earnest sharp-nosed visage of Samuel Beckett, chosen mentor (though he likely never knew this), has been peering down upon me through his granny spectacles, […]