...Christopher Citro Christopher Citro Single Male Seeks Someone Who’ll Stay I opened the door to get the paper last Sunday, and there was a goose standing on the front step. It looked up at me, then took one step to the side making room for me to pass. So I did. What else was there to do...

... to cool your virginity: a mirror to obscure the hesitation of what goes where. Here, shadows have lips, hands have gloves, a single thread carries the curve of your back. Walls blink with eyes that look like yours. Someone touches your thigh, measuring resistance...

...Brandon Krieg Copyright © 2020 Brandon Krieg 2020 Brandon Krieg For Caesar s I Am Admired the gap in a rabbit s leaping snow prints disappearing under the sedan and an oil rig exploded numbered casualties. Someone will pick hairs from the wet mop it won t be me. I ll be lming steam above...

... a bookstore background, so I picture someone in a bookstore, they see something by someone they may or may not have ever heard of, may or may not be in their field, they look at it and they go, "Wow! This looks really interesting. I need to read this." That's a whole different mechanism than people...

... the patterns and the orders but I need you to tell me. I am a frog. I am a frog, motionless. While I was learning to live without you, someone pushed me into the road. Someone pushed me into the road and laughed —​my white shoes you bought for me caked in mud. Who will buy me new shoes —​ I...

... that was tangled in the switchgrass, a windshield wiper that fell from someone s car. She prodded the cat. A cloud of flies rose from its body, then Roo let out a soft groan which I knew meant maggots. I turned and started walking. His name was Midnight. She called after me. RIP, Midnight. RIP. I echoed...

..., loading the trolley for her third trip down the aisle. There’s a small stain on her sleeve, gravy, perhaps, from the filet of steer, or juice from the unremarkable chicken, or fish. Most choose the fish, blackened as if someone...

... are exceedingly limited.” “Say, for argument’s sake, the rumor were true. The females are not coming back. It grows late. We are weak from the fast, our reserves are low. The hatching will soon begin. What are we to do? What can we do?” Someone says: “But we have to do something. What...

.... Sweet boy, unbuckle time! Open your belts and see how we hold your mother, how we wipe the belts from her face. Someone is strumming a belt. Someone is preaching a sermon, licking his cracked belts with a dry tongue. I want to take you home. I want you to say what s for dinner? I imagine opening your...

... damn thing without a degree, her coal-shoveling sugar daddy that pays the bills while his wife blows twenties and other men. He believes it after hours in the dark, wary of rock fall and loose women that laugh in the tunnels and run their nails up someone else’s back...

... it around on me. He’ll say that I don’t deserve his help because no one has ever helped him. He’ll take pleasure in looking down on me and he’ll probably kick me out of his apartment. We hear someone blasting Phish from one of the apartments. Jarret suggests that we figure out which apartment...

... application, stamp Hired, and she thanks me for the "opportunity," then makes her way to the exit sign. In a mean moment of slience between me and the boy, I hold the pill at bay, and I'm someone, then I hand the kid the Ritalin that stops his pacing, rids him...

...Jacqui Germain Copyright © 2021 Jacqui Germain 2021 Jacqui Germain A List of Items Recovered from Protesters: after Sam Sax First, my heart, though covered in dust & peeling; & also the praying palms of someone s mama tucked into a back pocket next to a sour-stained kerchief, folded...

...Marjorie Maddox © 2011 Marjorie Maddox 2011 Marjorie Maddox Nonsmoking Section Perhaps someone had thrown them out a car window. Someone else had flattened them with their tires —​there, smack in the middle of the road, residential area. “Whatever,” as her best friend from Roose­...

... slip to your date your real occupation; or, worse, slip a chance to repos- sess someone’s house or car and buy it cheap for yourself; or do you mean a mere moral fuckup, like going Saturday night with that spe- cial someone to your favorite roadhouse, The Gomorrah, making assurances that the name...

... him they were just following the instructions someone had handed them and that if he wanted a chance, he really should get in line. His filed report ran the next day: Playground Equipment Offers Room with a View AND Structured Garden Space All in One...

..., was missing a soul and had therefore lost the will to care. It wasn’t until Alton came to on the floor that anyone even knew it had ended. “I feel like I was caught in a brutal sex explosion,” he said to Lola, who looked like the ghost of someone who’d forgotten to die. When he saw her like...

...Sean Lovelace © 2013 Sean Lovelace 2013 Sean Lovelace 18 to 22 Me? I’m squared away. OK, maybe I drive slower. I drive slower. Sometimes I will confuse actual wheels and thoughts about wheels. I’ll think well, both take you places and I will smile into someone’s fore- head, like...

... and assume that Dr. Jerome is a morose and macabre man, two words I’ll confess I knew well before SAT prep as someone who is a certifiable word nerd and, in case you’re wondering, has also tested negative for Asperger’s multiple times. (I may be eccentric and somewhat socially inept and prone...