miCRo: “Fight” by Babak Lakghomi
Babak Lakghomi’s “Fight” considers the reverberations of violence across space and time.
miCRo: “Summit” by Deb Werrlein
I say no age is too old for living.
miCRo: “The Man Under the Blanket” by Lisa Thornton
A story that examines the nature of belonging to a family, with an undercurrent of imagined violence.
miCRo: A poem by Alex Wells Shapiro
In Alex Wells Shapiro’s “a buck,” the voice confronts death, specifically the material reality and circumstances of death.
miCRo: “When I Was a Boxer” by Kailah Figueroa
Kailah Figueroa’s “When I Was a Boxer” is an adrenaline-filled pleasure from start to finish.
miCRo: “Honey?” by Daniel Fraser
In Daniel Fraser’s “Honey?” the house is uneasily animate, changing with its inhabitants and, indeed, changing its inhabitants.
miCRo: “Departing” by Charis Morgan
The house would have folded sooner, but its clocks lost their hands.
miCRo: “The Musculature of Restraint” by Carolene Kurien
I come back the next day and throw every curl sloughing itself off my head on the butcher scale.
miCRo: “Après L’Ondée” by Brooke Middlebrook
In Brooke Middlebrook’s “Après L’Ondée,” scent is a mode of inquiry that necessitates sensitivity down to the level of the molecular.
miCRo: “Yonder” by Steve Castro, Christopher Citro, and Dustin Pearson
Steve Castro (top), Christopher Citro (bottom left), and Dustin Pearson (bottom right) Assistant Editor Kate Jayroe: As writers, we learn to accept that much of our drafting and crafting happens in solitude, so it was a fun surprise to encounter a collaborative prose...
miCRo: “Swamp” by Catherine Niu
Am I still the companion on your Southwest Airlines Companion Pass?
miCRo: “Posthuman Slays the Jabberwock” by Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey
In Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey’s retelling of Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky”, the slaying of the Jabberwock is called into question.
