Bosc Poetry By Leslie Miller When sun­light falls on the pearit becomes the meal of a long dead woman with heavy sleeves and small dog. Smoke from her chimney billows across the roof, and the wind presses rags of it closeto the ground like the…

Waiting For Gilbert Dra­mat­ic Works By Kelly Pet­tyjohn Setting  A typical living room in a sub­ur­ban house. There is a large window next to  the front door. A sickly house plant is in a pot on the floor next to a couch.  Time  Late after­noon.  Char­ac­ters  Astral,…

Oyster City Under Water Fiction By Madison Garber              Morning dawns gunwale gray and wet in Oyster City. The hur­ri­cane, first a roar in the night, then a howl, now a whisper of sea spray over the coast, barrels farther inland.…

Things I Wanted to Say are Locked Behind the Uvula Cre­ative Non-Fiction By Juheon Rhee           So when I didn’t say the things I wanted to say, I had hoped you would know. Do you remem­ber? You’ll shake your head. We’ve become…

Three Poems by Jonathan Diaz Poetry By Jonathan Diaz Vision: October 15, 2022 Having seen the smoke piling above the parking lot and the flames coiled around the cars      the fire­fight­ers instruct­ing the crowd to move any vehi­cles not active­ly on fire I…

What is Held Within a Scene (A Short Story in Play Form) Dra­mat­ic Works By Juliean­na Black­well trigger warning: gun vio­lence Char­ac­ter List JENNIFER WESTERLY: 37 years old. She is a brunette, thin, short. She is dressed in old jogging shorts, a non­de­script pro­mo­tion­al T‑shirt under a bulky…

Smoke Out of the Jar Cre­ative Non-Fiction By Nuala O’Connor           In my child­hood home, dif­fi­cult things were stored like smoke in a tight- lidded jar. Hurts, ills, and prob­lems were a visible miasma through the glass, but they would sit in…

Sept/ember Poetry By Court Ludwick Morning of the twen­ti­eth, there is a uni­verse on my wall. Just kidding it is only a burning square of light. Just kidding it is not quite burning. In the square, there are shadows of swaying leaves. Just kidding I…

The Onion Fiction By Kevin Broc­coli The may­on­naise has not been made. As the onion con­tem­plates how long it will be until someone notices that the may­on­naise has not been made, it sees Chef Doyle trying not to cry. Chef Doyle does not cry at work. In…

Stonecoast Student Aliza Dube Wins 2023 Maine Chap­book Series News Stonecoast MFA and the Stonecoast Review con­grat­u­late Aliza Dube on selec­tion of her story col­lec­tion The Depen­dents as winner of the Maine Writers & Pub­lish­ers Alliance 2023 Maine Chap­book Series. The Depen­dents to be pub­lished this Fall.…