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…

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…