by Jenna Gersie | Jul 23, 2026 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2026
Home Made Wild In spring, we count snakes in the garden. The raised beds are built over what used to be an in-ground swimming pool. The walkway that once surrounded the pool is still in place; beneath the concrete slabs, snakes poke their heads out to reach the sun....
by Shelley Pryde | Jul 23, 2026 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2026
Into Bits It was barely 10 p.m., and Lane had just broken a Black Label all over the dance floor. It wasn’t her fault, really. She’d been pushing past a gaggle of glimmering twinks to get behind the DJ booth when one of their bony elbows jutted out and jabbed her...
by Rainy Diforte | Jul 23, 2026 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2026
I’ll Meet You at the Ocean The smell of freshly mowed grass almost made me sick. Its underlying stench of gasoline mixed with the herbaceous musk of the grass was reminiscent of past summers in this neighborhood. I liked the smell then. Our house’s lawn was littered...
by Beatriz Brenes Mora | Jul 23, 2026 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2026
I See You I see you, Malitzen, the betrayer and the victim. You did what you did out of fear and out of smarts. They named you “She who speaks lively.” And you spoke. You spoke all the tongues available to you to make a living, to keep alive. I see your dark eyes like...
by Iman Iftikhar | Jul 23, 2026 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2026
Broad Feet Nazuk loved the chappal store. The summer brought slippers, open-toed sandals, kolhapuris, and hawai chappals that made even the fatties buoyant. In the winter, ladies loved pumps, court heels, comfort moccasins for the grannies or the closeted lesbians,...
by Emma Solórzano | Jul 23, 2026 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2026
Querida Marcello cursed through ground teeth at the backpack zipper as it caught for the fourth time on the plastic wrapping of the diapers. Pulled taut between the metal teeth, the plastic warped and loosened with each catch. The zipper’s unforgiving mouth chewed at...
