The Literary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA
CREATIVE NONFICTION By Amy Scheiner You’re with me on those summer days, all the windows down and the moon roof open, the sun strong enough to warm our skin but not so strong as to blind us. Your kaleidoscopic bracelets reaching from wrist to elbow…
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…
FICTION By Dina Cox The toy surprise at the bottom of the cereal box turned out not to be a fidget spinner or packet of magic markers, or miniaturized plastic batting helmet, but a message in a bottle, a very small bottle, formerly a bottle containing…
DRAMATIC WORK by Serena Norr CHARACTERS BEN: 25, Dreams to work at Stocked, HQ MAC: 55, CEO of Stocked, HQ BETTY: 30, Stocked Mom, College Student, Best Friend, etc. Assumes all roles and easily confirms to fit any part at Stocked, HQ 2–3 VARIOUS PEOPLE:…
CREATIVE NONFICTION By Rachael Hanel You’ll need strength to do this. * You see the bodies around you, beautiful in their power, the way legs float effortlessly up into the air and achieve sirsasana, headstand, for many breaths. You want that power and beauty, too. *…
POETRY By Kellam Ayres He sits shotgun in the car he’d sold to Maris for a dollar while she drives him to the hospital. It’s springtime. He holds a dishtowel dark with blood between his hands. Watching a pair of cardinals, he’d shattered a coffee mug on the…