November 27, 2017
Maggie Smith Parachute Because a lie is not a lie if the teller believes it, the way beautiful things reassure us of the world’s wholeness, of our wholeness, is not quite a lie. Beautiful things believe their own narrative, the narrative that makes them beautiful. I almost believed it until the new mother strapped her infant to her chest, ...
November 20, 2017
Kristin Robertson Meet the Owl with Eyes Like the Night Sky –with a title from I Fucking Love Science We all knew the boy who plucked out his glass eye on the bus to distract the match-lighting boys, the bigger boys, from setting his only jacket on fire. We played Marco Polo with him in the ...
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. - 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 ...