By Nancy Welch Fiction writer Nancy Welch tells the compelling tale of how her beloved, problematic rescue pup Chili romped into her heart. First published in a recent special feature of Ploughshares online called “Writers […]
by Calypso Jewel Yeats if you thought Leda could not defend herself from a swan you didn’t understand how a woman loves a god who comes as something other than […]
by Wendy Goddard As roommates go, Mark the Stonemason possessed many qualities to recommend him, none more crucial than his being the recipient of my friend Charlotte’s love. Mark could size up […]
THE BODY’S WORLD —after Raymond Carver When we wake up early to ride the horses and find them sweating already in their fine summer coats, we carefully get […]
Grace Sleeps through Poetry First Friday Writing Group, Rollins Campus Obligingly, into the circle of us, she falls, clack and hum and hiss of our tongues catching in the soft […]
by Ann LaBar I. Tale of year’s dead, Grim Reaper busy in root cellar and shed The list is a long one: Commencing with countless least shrews, twenty-some short tailed shrews strewn […]
By Laura Sobbott Ross Dancing was something we hadn’t done in years, we told one another that night, the three of us marveling at our neon auras, fingers snapping, cupping the […]
“Another huge perk is that, unlike uber-gifted children, before they grow up and go off to college to scare the cr*p out of you by changing their majors and their genders, they die.” […]
A Month of Animal Heat All through the month of August, in cicada song and steam, the Gloria Sirens will bring you animal stories, songs, poems, and pictures. We’ll feature summertime with our […]
A True Tale of Avarice and Pride (with a Side Order of Lust) By Susan Lilley Some people say that “dinner” and “theatre” are two concepts that should never be entwined […]
