Issue 17

VISUAL ART By Lau­ralee Siko­rs­ki This image orig­i­nal­ly appeared in Stonecoast Review Issue 17.

POETRY By Tatiana Retivov  You were in a wheel­bar­row that day when the wind over­turned trees, trash­cans, and I was being born.   In the pavil­ion Hazel foamed while Furies hovered above, their hands wrung with joy. She kept me dead­locked like Julius Caesar in a pool of blood.…

VISUAL ART By Whitney Ball This image orig­i­nal­ly appeared in Stonecoast Review Issue 17.

POETRY By Jeffrey H. MacLach­lan Easter Egg my fists   concuss    the easter        egg    juice    beet  lips       of                christ dis­charg­ing        from    the easter         egg…

VISUAL ART By Hanna Webster.  This image orig­i­nal­ly appeared in Stonecoast Review Issue 17.

POETRY By Jonathan Pessant  a med­i­ta­tion on the      passing of Thich Nhat Hanh   five novices kneel five recruits sit   ten heads are shaved basic    for train­ing   recit­ing ten pre­cepts oathing seven values   trans­form all suf­fer­ing         obey all orders   are you part…

VISUAL ART Whitney Ball, “Unknown Depths.”  This photo orig­i­nal­ly appeared in Stonecoast Review Issue 17. 

By Terence Patrick Hughes  Plenty of folks in town had died at all ages and all times of day or night, some grue­some, some passive, and every one of them referred to after­ward as having been ‘too good’ or ‘too young’, or on rare occasions…

by Amy Martin This story orig­i­nal­ly appeared in Stonecoast Review Issue 17.   BOUNTY A rural road some­where in the Amer­i­can South or Midwest in a not-too-distant future. From BLACK, sound of a SIREN, then cop cher­ries flash. A teenage girl in a field hockey uniform appears…

By Gideon Emmanuel A boy asked his mother one night how  it is to survive in a  country where sur­vival is a furnace & his body like a metal goes  through it every time an invis­i­ble hand pulls the trigger    hard  to break life’s rules and…