The Literary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA
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.
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…
VISUAL ART By Prudence DiBenedetto This image originally appeared in Stonecoast Review Issue 17.
POETRY By Brittany Adames On the modular couch, the fingers splays against the curve of a collarbone, television flickers in a measured motion. We have miraculously invented the clatter, the performance and the self-rule, the ghost of a pot that hasn’t hit the stove …
VISUAL ART By W. Goodwin This image originally appeared in Stonecoast Review Issue 17.
CREATIVE NONFICTION by Rachel Katz In bed with my laptop on Saturday morning, January 21st, 2017, I searched for the livestream of the Women’s March on Washington and clicked open a video window, mindlessly, the way I would flick on a light. My boyfriend sat…