Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Sand­piper Poetry By Adriana Stimola I saw a sand­piper trace the place the sea rubs her belly on January sand. Only, this bird, it was missing a foot, so I stared, hard enough for tears to come, then looked…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Sir, Ma’am, Sorry Cre­ative Non-Fiction By Cass Peter­son I step up to the counter at the café to order. The young man behind the counter says with cheer, What can I get you this morning, Sir?…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Trouble Child Fiction By Emily Brown There was a priest at the door. He was young and jubi­lant. His hair was close-cut to his head, which struck Roman as odd because most of the priests he’d seen…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Cloud Seeding Cre­ative Non-Fiction By Sandra Carlson Khalil In Dubai, we are not allowed to gather in protest. We are not allowed to display a foreign flag, so two weeks after the fight­ing begins, my children…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Fingers, Penny, Pocket Fiction By Calla Orion a.) She is Fingers. Actual fingers. Bending at the knuckle to grasp a penny on the con­crete; lifting back up. Penny shines in the light. It is midday. Wealth hits…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Thun­der­bird Bou­tique Fiction By Zac Walsh Jimmy grabs his shit like it’s an evac­u­a­tion and stuffs it in the nearest bag. Shirt, boxers, socks, Gravity’s Rainbow, tooth­brush, and small body spray, the brand that brings in the…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Not the Tulips I Was Expect­ing Fiction By Jessica Klimesh In late October, I plant the bulbs, exca­vat­ing dirt with my trowel. Soil, my mom cor­rects me, not dirt. She watches, bundled in blan­kets, from her…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Pre­ex­ist­ing Con­di­tion Dra­mat­ic Works By Charles Hertz CAST OF CHARACTERS  JOCELYN Jocelyn Sheavis, age 35. Talent Acqui­si­tion pro­fes­sion­al, R&W Quanti-Systems.  LYDIA Lydia Tawellent, age 25, but looks even younger. Job appli­cant.  SUIT Cor­po­rate Secu­ri­ty Exec­u­tive, age 45.…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA On Voice: Writing In a Time of Fear Cre­ative Non-Fiction By Tina Carson An earlier version of this essay orig­i­nal­ly appeared on Tina’s sub­stack under the title Ugly Algo­rithms: Another Thing Being Tina Taught Me.     The purpose of…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Sydney Lea: Cham­pi­on of the Maine Sto­ry­telling Tra­di­tionA Con­ver­sa­tion with Susan Conley Cre­ative Non-Fiction Sydney Lea speaks with Susan Conley Susan: It’s been so good to connect thirty-four years after we last talked poetry at Middlebury…