November 16, 2017
Congratulations to our second fiction nomination for this year’s Pushcart Prize: Eli Barrett for "The Imagination Resettlement Program." Read the excerpt below, then purchase a subscription to Pleiades here.
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The Imagination Resettlement Program
The first one I saw was a tiger with golden stripes— shiny gold, like the metal—breathing fire in my front yard, scorching the hell out of the grass. I still don’t ...
November 13, 2017
William Brewer
Halfway House Diary
Somewhere at the bottom of the world a whale is singing to itself,
running through its temple of otherlight and salt.
I have decided water has a god and its name is gravity.
When it’s my turn to fix the gutters, I call myself
Master of the Aqueducts.
When on some mornings, as with this one,
I wake to my roommate ...
November 10, 2017
Congratulations to our first fiction nomination for this year’s Pushcart Prize: Alexander Weinstein for "Fall Line." Read the excerpt below, then purchase a subscription to Pleiades here.
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Fall Line
I’m filling ice when Sunny radios that Desolation Pass is officially closed for the season. The top half is skiable, but after that it’s all patches of grass and rocks. “I’ll tell them to bring an inner ...
November 06, 2017
Shara McCallum
Race
You are the original incognito.
Transparent, all things shine through you.
She’s the whitest black girl you ever saw,
lighter than “flesh” in the Crayola box.
But, man, look at that ass and look at her shake it
were just words, not sticks or stones, flung
when dresses were the proof that clung like skin,
when lipstick stained brighter than any ...
