Issue 22

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA With Dogs Visual Art by Porsche Jones Visual Art Porsche Jones is an artist, writer, and pho­tog­ra­ph­er living in Man­ches­ter, New Hamp­shire. She has exhib­it­ed her work all over the world.  She can be found online at…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA A Doll’s Fin­ger­prints Fiction By Eliz­a­beth Kirschn­er At first, my husband Lou was akin to a saint carried in a pro­ces­sion. Back then, I didn’t know how to occupy the dark, espe­cial­ly when it was stretched out.…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA A Life of No Expe­ri­ence Popular Fiction By Jordan Marie McCaw Sarah gazed out the window of her room to watch the cars drive on the highway. The road was a thin black ribbon miles away from her.…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA This Haunt­ing Red Dra­mat­ic Works By Mitchell Hart­croft Cast of Char­ac­ters:   LUKE RAMIREZ               a haggard yet mild-man­nered man in cheap clothes. JOANNE ROWLETTE     a psy­chol­o­gist with too many unread books…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA The Tale of Two Amer­i­c­as An Inter­ac­tive Poetic Poetry By Nikki Ummel Answer Key NIKKI UMMEL is a queer artist, editor, and edu­ca­tor in New Orleans. Nikki has been pub­lished or has work forth­com­ing in Gulf Coast,…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Imme’s War Years Poetry By Mia Dyson MIA DYSON was born to a British father and a German mother. She earned a BA from Tufts Uni­ver­si­ty in Inter­na­tion­al Rela­tions and a BS in Nursing from Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty. In…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Ever After Poetry By Gibson Fay-LeBlanc I don’t know how my brother forgave the doctor who missed the melanoma on his scalp and tried to freeze it off before it came back and was every­where.   Or how…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Cross­ings Poetry By Emma Shep­pard The first man I loved would prop the fridge open with his foot and chug two litres of water from  an old green soda bottle that we’d torn the label off of.    He’d…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Summer Help IV Poetry By Emilee Kinney Semi­trucks shed tires often without real­iz­ing, layers left behind until blown out to the rim. It’s hot at the end of the week and with all county medians mowed, foreman assigns…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Chair Poetry By Beneth Gold­schmidt-Sauer CHAIR (French, flesh)   When I try to tell you how a body becomes ceded ter­ri­to­ry I could start by telling you I can’t leave the car’s heater at 69 degrees.   Or…