Issue 22

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Frosted Glass Fiction By Oona McP­hear­son The sky was flat. And white. It looked like frosted glass. Adaline had always hated frosted glass. It was so very cheap, only ever used in mall bath­rooms and ugly hotels;…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Sanc­tu­ary Fiction By JJ Amaworo Wilson On May 8, 1902, a sailor named Matteo di Bat­tista watches from a ship off the coast of Mar­tinique as a cat­a­stro­phe unfolds. Mont Pelée erupts. A cloud of red ash…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA A Stonecoast Reunion Aaron Ham­burg­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Shannon Bowring Cre­ative Non-Fiction Stonecoast alumna and former Stonecoast Review Editor-in-Chief Shannon Bowring is the author of The Road to Dalton and the newly released Where the Forest…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA A Very Nice Fire Dra­mat­ic Works By Matthew Moore “When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”   ~ Dylan Thomas   Char­ac­ters   Claire, 30’s Anne, 30’s Gillian, 20’s   Setting:  A Living Room, Sunset…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA The Tree Trimmer Cre­ative Non-Fiction By Tammy Dela­torre He died in a tree at the end of our street. I didn’t know his name, but I learned of his death on my evening walk, when the air…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Foreman Lopez Poetry By Dennis Cum­mings When they came, Tomás Lopez, the green­house foreman, sliced through the poly­eth­yl­ene siding with pruning shears, was caught in the canyon below the airport  five miles nearer the ocean. In two hours he…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Home Poetry By Brooke Harries In slow heat inside, fan whirls can­dle­light. I watch a film and fold cloth­ing. Think like a poem thinks. Lately nothing blooms. The stairs shake. A neigh­bor triple-checks their lock. It makes my door…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Need to know basis Poetry By Emma Shep­pard I’ll tell you that my legs were swing­ing off the exam table. But it was an MRI machine and I don’t know how to phrase that. And I’m six feet…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Safety and the Human Con­di­tion Visual Art by Alek­san­dra Scepanovic Visual Art ALEKSANDRA SCEPANOVIC’s journey to sculp­ture began in social­ist Yugoslavia in the 1980s. Her pro­fes­sion­al path tra­versed the realms of archae­ol­o­gy, war zones during the…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Empty Mirror Visual Art by Jaina Cipri­ano Visual Art JAINA CIPRIANO is a pho­tog­ra­ph­er, design­er and film­mak­er explor­ing reli­gious and roman­tic entrap­ment. Her second short film, ‘Trauma Bond’ is a dreamy, coming of age thriller that explores…