The Literary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA
POETRY By Benjamin Faro On a finger of continent between golden, earth ‑laden waters, where sunset is brighter even than L.A. and the Huang Hue never stops arriving, I turn west to reject the mouth as a place of expulsion. Why is it called a river mouth if a mouth…
FICTION By Laura Leigh Morris “I guess we should talk about Leander.” She’s cute in a ruddy cheeked, outdoorsman sort of way. Not the type of woman I picture with my husband. I stab at the salad with my fork, wave at her to dig…
POETRY By Sarah Dickenson Snyder Postmarked in Santa Fe: the sky is electric blue with quiet clouds banked against the endless mountains. From the West Coast: an ocean is an ocean, water swelling forever. Maybe she travels for a new language. She knows how to pronounce the past…
POETRY By Terence Degnan dear Palindrome, fuck// dear Parkinson’s,// Dianne is in the hospital again// we are sitting on her dog, Sam// before she was taken away she walked over and gifted me one of those grippers my old man used to keep on his…
POETRY By Charles Byrne even pre-prepandemic, we were bubbled: Netflix- & Amazon sealed: pixelated miniscule-screen freeze-frames: air encircled in plastic air bubbles with a tiny black box at the bottom: discrete behaviorist levers to parcel out the dopamine drip: our secure little bubbles: gossip is…
CREATIVE NONFICTION By Amy Scheiner You’re with me on those summer days, all the windows down and the moon roof open, the sun strong enough to warm our skin but not so strong as to blind us. Your kaleidoscopic bracelets reaching from wrist to elbow…
GENRE FICTION By Jennie Evenson My mama’s singing had power. Real power. She’d start every song with a low round note, then slide it upward to a high lonesome sound and hold it there, letting it shiver against her ribs, before she sent the note…
FICTION By Dina Cox The toy surprise at the bottom of the cereal box turned out not to be a fidget spinner or packet of magic markers, or miniaturized plastic batting helmet, but a message in a bottle, a very small bottle, formerly a bottle containing…
DRAMATIC WORK by Serena Norr CHARACTERS BEN: 25, Dreams to work at Stocked, HQ MAC: 55, CEO of Stocked, HQ BETTY: 30, Stocked Mom, College Student, Best Friend, etc. Assumes all roles and easily confirms to fit any part at Stocked, HQ 2–3 VARIOUS PEOPLE:…
CREATIVE NONFICTION By Rachael Hanel You’ll need strength to do this. * You see the bodies around you, beautiful in their power, the way legs float effortlessly up into the air and achieve sirsasana, headstand, for many breaths. You want that power and beauty, too. *…