FICTION By Erin Jourdan Ksjhe was trying to sleep but the smoke from the fires was every­where. He went to his com­put­er and tried to appease it by typing fire, fire fire fire fire fire fire fire fire into the box. I see you. I…

POETRY By Tatiana Retivov There is a country where my voice must hold its daily reck­on­ing and ques­tion this alle­giance to the spirit of the cross­roads who has scat­tered what remains too hor­ri­ble for lan­guage and placed a skull over a stump to guard his wretched bound­aries. I…

CREATIVE NONFICTION by Rina Palumbo  I see myself walking on hard-packed snow, from the fields and towards the river. It is over­cast and just before sunset, only shades of grey above and white below. I see myself walking in a black coat with the hood…

POETRY By Jason Kahler Not on purpose. She makes the house payment one week and makes the same mort­gage payment the next week. Words come harder now, like the wood of the Scrab­ble tiles but less glossy. The rules slip away: no con­trac­tions, no proper…

DRAMATIC WORK   by Ben Scran­ton Syn­op­sis When an African-Amer­i­­can woman submits an unusual piece of orig­i­nal art to a show whose theme is ‘The End of Society as We Know It’ debate ensues between the white arts admin­is­tra­tor and the artist.  They nav­i­gate a treacherous…

POETRY by Dina Folgia   if I leave my dad will too   hands clutch­ing bitter hand                               mis­er­able cal­lous­es   wrench­ing plugs from sockets …

FICTION by Midge Raymond She’s stand­ing in line at the reg­is­tra­tion table when she sees him, two writers ahead. Sun-spritzed brown hair, strong hands. A hint of crow’s feet indi­cat­ing he’s maybe fortysome­thing. No wedding ring. When he leans over the table to sign a…

VISUAL ART By W. Goodwin This image orig­i­nal­ly appeared in Stonecoast Review Issue 17.

Jillian Rodseth grew up in Bureau Junc­tion, Illi­nois, a tiny town sur­round­ed by rail­roads and canals, hills and ditches, rivers and ponds. She now lives in a 1800s era utopia on the prairie. She teaches English, directs theater, and writes fiction, poetry, and drama. She…

DRAMATIC WORK by James Menges   Syn­op­sis: A digital ren­di­tion of Hamlet’s solil­o­quy “To be or not to be” per­formed as a con­tem­po­rary group text chat.    Staging Notes: This is an exper­i­men­tal play with a dance element. There is only one spoken line in the…