Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA reader, i’m sorry if this image is now yours to carry too Poetry By BEE LB my mother’s on the phone with my brother who said he wrote me a letter but didn’t. i told her to ask…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA We Know That Our Emper­ors Are Naked*A Double Sonnet of Sorts Poetry By Mary Rohrer-Dann Full moon. High tide. High seas. Pacific sweeps  across the 101, laps the dunes,  forces our patio dining indoors  where waves slam the plate-glass…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Sixteen Steps to Eating a Potato Cre­ative Non-Fiction By Shawna Ervin 1 Choose a tray—red, orange, green, or blue. Notice the scratch­es. Grab a plastic plate, a napkin, sil­ver­ware still warm.    2 Notice the leaves on trees…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Dear Moranda Smith Poetry By Richard Hamil­ton The last fretful hour mending poems.   It is my job to see a blade of grass, a blade of blood working beneath  the Warhol Museum. The Warho­las, after all,…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA The Rio Grande Poetry By Lizeth De La Luz Under water you are still an iri­des­cent trace of  corners pealed    sunbeam and sunset  stay with us  soul and dust     whisper of flame in hand you bloom  (________)    in…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA We Are Raw Poetry By Rishona Michael We steal four filet mignons for every workday of the week. Except Sunday we eat out, order Chicken Adobo, and I worry about one day no longer loving you. Most…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Fall­ou­tA Ballad of Peace and David Has­sel­hoff Dra­mat­ic Works By Robert J. LeBlanc SYNOPSIS The end of the world came out of nowhere and the fallout con­tin­ues. TAGLINE There is always fallout. CAST OF CHARACTERS GEN X: Any…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Authen­tic­i­ty Dra­mat­ic Works By Tom Coash CAST: Noor — Female, light-skinned, actor Mia — Female, tanned, actor (Both about the same age)   SETTING: Audi­tion waiting room    TIME: The Present   (Two women waiting for an audi­tion. Noor…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA What to Do with Rage Cre­ative Non-Fiction By Sydney Lea The icy morning finds me in bed, engrossed in a book of John Singer Sargent’s water­col­ors. The thought of staying under the covers all but over­whelms me.…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Tell Me A Story Fiction By N. T. McQueen Tell me a story, Pap. It seems since you came into this world six years ago you’ve been asking me this ques­tion. Even when your almond eyes stared back…