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POETRY By Sheila Black The year I spent a month in Denver vis­it­ing my daugh­ter in the eating dis­or­der hos­pi­tal the closest com­pan­ions were the geese who flocked the con­crete islands between the too-wide roads.   Some nights it was only fairy tales I understood:…

POETRY By Eric Abal­a­jon “I used to hang out just outside           the fence of Pearson Inter­na­tion­al, on week­ends with friends,         and bring binoc­u­lars. It became         a bad hobby imme­di­ate­ly after 9–11.”      …

What do you write? Fiction and screen­plays. Is there an author or artist who has most pro­found­ly influ­enced your work? I think my most lasting influ­ence has been R.L. Stein. There’s one Fear Street book where a guy is swim­ming in the ocean and the killer tries to…

DRAMATIC WORK   By KJ Stewart A play­ground. Recess. FOUGLAS (pro­nounced like“Douglas”) kicking wood chips around. CLEMENTINE under a slide pre­tend­ing to be a cat. FOUGLAS throws a wood chip at her. CLEMENTINE: That hurts. FOUGLAS: It’s because I like you. I found a Mouth in the Woods.…

CREATIVE NONFICTION By Jocelyn Heath My father calls to tell me that he has to give up swim­ming. His shoul­ders started aching awhile back, but he went on swim­ming until the pain buried itself so deep in his joints, espe­cial­ly at night, that he went…

Sub­mis­sions for Stonecoast Review Issue 19 are now OPEN. Send us your lit­er­ary fiction, genre fiction, cre­ative non­fic­tion, poetry, visual art, dra­mat­ic works, and exper­i­men­tal works. Read our full guide­lines here for specifics. Pre­vi­ous issues of Stonecoast Review are just as impor­tant as the guidelines.…

Stonecoast Review will be opening to sub­mis­sions on Feb­ru­ary 5th. Sub­mis­sions will close on April 5th. Reading our guide­lines is an excel­lent way for poten­tial sub­mit­ters to under­stand the essen­tials of what we’re looking for and how to send us your work. We pride our­selves on…

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…

Stonecoast Review Issue 17 is avail­able for pur­chase here. You can also visit the link on the “archive” page. We are exceed­ing­ly proud of this issue, which con­tains poems, screen­writ­ing, short stories, and more. But no matter the format, the tales told in Stonecoast Review…

By Bill Cook  I move in the pond, my arms too heavy to lift. I feel the spray from my older sister’s squirt-gun hitting me in the face. She’s fifteen and has a boyfriend before dad puts his foot down. She won’t talk to me about…