• Cocoon

    Cocoon

    The spider woman offers you a black vial. If you had any doubts, they were left on the forest path that led you here, to this cave. The vial glitters in your palm like a dark jewel, darker even than her many eyes.

  • Book Review: Inside Out Egg

    Book Review: Inside Out Egg

    In Robin LaMer Rahija’s debut poetry collection “Inside Out Egg,” we are jackknifed into the absurdity of beauty coexisting with banality, and saved by the hope of another snowfall.

  • Mr. Movie

    Mr. Movie

    Long before Blockbuster opened in our town, there was Mr. Movie. Everyone knew him—he was our resident gay man, a curiosity in small Midwestern town. He rarely went outside, but when he did, he drifted between the mailbox and concrete stoop of the sagging bungalow, a tall, pale ghost in…

  • scrimshaw

    scrimshaw

    Here, she is mistress of a small, tidy universe, almost untouched by the woes of the world outside. Among the comforting smells of garlic and sage, one could almost forget the wail of air-raid sirens, the ration tickets, and the lines of uniformed men waiting at the steam-shrouded station.

  • babies are free

    babies are free

    A rescue mission for Mother.

  • It Only Takes One

    It Only Takes One

    To fail is to succeed. But how?

  • Ode to Joe

    Ode to Joe

    I’ve got a bean to grind.

  • Only Forward, Never Back

    Only Forward, Never Back

    Knock, knock. Who’s there? Andromeda Magazine!

  • Wrestling with Jello

    Wrestling with Jello

    Reflections on a writing seminar with Natalie Goldberg, author of “Writing Down the Bones”.

  • Blue Jeans

    Blue Jeans

    It’s menacing, fetid, and dark. I back away and press the jeans to my chest, reconsidering. I can’t do this, but I must.

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