June 27, 2022
Livestream Yellowstone National Park I watch schools of salmon lend themselves with pleasure to the mouths of grizzly bears when everything that's supposed to sit circled quietly around me starts shouting, the fat brick of hash I told my friend not to let me keep, not even if I kowtow at the knees for it, the pair of garish rotisserie chickens peppered with rosemary gossiping in the fridge, the little ...
June 09, 2022
It Could Also Whisper A Guide to Bird Songs, Aretas A. Saunders: 1935 Dear Reader―There are dimples on the flyleaf where you signedso hard you nearly tore it & a tiny ochre beetlesealed evermore beside a Towhee’s tank yo tee hee tee.In that Braille I thought Disaffection. In the spine’sgrit Blackstorm Dust― You ask, Aretas,if the watcher’s right in counting on the list a bird they’ve heardbut ...
June 02, 2022
Pleiades congratulates Vickie Fang, winner of the 2022 Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction, judged by Trudy Lewis. She will receive an award of $1,000 and her winning story, “Eleven Things I Have Left Now That My Daughter is Gone,” will be published in a forthcoming issue of Pleiades. Of the winning story, Trudy Lewis writes: “Eleven Things I Have Left Now That My Daughter is Gone” works, like the best of ...
February 15, 2022
The Hawk Moth Story I called ahead. “Caleb? I’m in the neighborhood. If you haven’t had lunch, I can drop off a calzone from Fastino’s.” The offer of food was an excuse to check on him, something my son well knew, but he tolerated the ruse. After a brief silence, he said, “Sure, Ma. ...