POETRY By Kellam Ayres He sits shotgun in the car he’d sold to Maris for a dollar while she drives him to the hos­pi­tal. It’s spring­time. He holds a dish­tow­el dark with blood between his hands. Watch­ing a pair of car­di­nals, he’d shat­tered a coffee mug on the…

FICTION By Jane Snyder What kind of world was it, Dave won­dered, where a woman could put herself above a man? He was ready for this one. “Whoa there, Sis,” he said when he felt her hand cup his gen­i­tals under the jump­suit. “You play, you pay.” She…

Sub­mis­sions for Stonecoast Review Issue 19 are now open, and will close on October 1st. Reminder that we accept: Lit­er­ary fiction. Genre fiction. Non­fic­tion.  Poetry.  Dra­mat­ic works.  Visual Art. You can read our full sub­mis­sion guide­lines here. We look forward to reading your work. Photo by Luke Southern.

Sub­mis­sions for Stonecoast Review Issue 19 will open on August 1st. Reminder that we accept: Lit­er­ary fiction. Genre fiction. Non­fic­tion.  Poetry.  Dra­mat­ic works.  Visual Art. You can read our full sub­mis­sion guide­lines here. We look forward to reading your work.

Thirty-three tal­ent­ed poets, drama­tists, writers, and artists came togeth­er and made Issue 19 a reality. Read their works in Stonecoast Review Issue 19, now avail­able for pur­chase from local book­seller Kelly’s Books to Go.     Yael Valen­cia Aldana is a Caribbean Afro-Latinx writer and poet.…

POETRY By Luke Johnson and Megan Mer­chant For I,   I thought of you and bullets and the husk of ruin we are feeding our chil­dren, saying swallow, it will make you strong, in the end, but I know. When I sat the other day with…

Stonecoast Review is proud to publish the works of many tal­ent­ed pho­tog­ra­phers, illus­tra­tors, and visual artists of every kind. Here are the pieces that made Stonecoast Review Issue 18…   Spider Dance, by Sarah-Jane Crowson Out-Reach, by Larena Nellies-Ortiz Sisters, by Terry Brinkman agents against…

GENRE FICTION By Robert E. Stutts “How like a winter hath my absence been / From thee…” ~William Shake­speare, Sonnet 97 She will be gone. The world is white this time of year, every moment of space filled up with cold and want and waiting. In this…

DRAMATIC WORK By Emma Watkins   A man stands among several play­sets. A play kitchen. A play school. A play vet­eri­nar­i­an. A play pizze­ria and food deliv­ery stand. None of them come above his waist.    ARTHUR: I make little worlds. I’m less inter­est­ed in big ones.…

DRAMATIC WORK By Gregory Von Dare A ten-minute sci-fi comedy about serious stuff.   CAST: TODD: A nerdy guy in his mid-30s. Average height and build. Kind of an annoy­ing voice. GINNY:  She is ath­let­ic and moves with the fluid grace of a dancer. Early 20s. Excited…