Wendy can’t help hovering outside the den when her fourteen-year-old daughter’s older friend Harris first comes over to play video games on a Saturday. They’re talking about a woman named Cora Goodnight, all over the local news for killing (probably) her three husbands and her pastor. The church-directory photo posted with each telling of her …
. . . It started on a Monday. That much you remember clearly. The Old Man was due back from his tropical vacation, and HR had issued a reminder that he could be “mercurial” in times of transition. You’d all been on the business end of his black moods a time or ten, so by …
We are honored to share and celebrate our nominations for this year’s Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best Microfiction, Nina Riggs Poetry Award, PEN/Robert J. Dau Award, and Best Spiritual Literature.