The Literary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA
GENRE FICTION By Sage Tyrtle The actors they’ve hired to play the Thompsons are all wrong. I can see them from my bedroom window, the living room lit up, the curtains open the way they never were when Angie and her family lived there. The…
GENRE FICTION By Jennie Evenson My mama’s singing had power. Real power. She’d start every song with a low round note, then slide it upward to a high lonesome sound and hold it there, letting it shiver against her ribs, before she sent the note…
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…
GENRE FICTION By Alan Cliffe Part One: Churchgoing Men, 1945 Antoinette Timrod Tony didn’t seem like the other white guys at the El Dorado. I mean, not just the obvious thing of being younger than his dad and uncles. He’d been overseas for a few years, including…