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“Five Arrows” by Heinz Insu Fenkl in The New Yorker
By Heinz Insu Fenkl Yongsu and I launched the flat-bottomed boat from a muddy part of the river I didn’t recognize. It seemed the bank of the river had moved much closer to the village, though I knew it hadn’t rained much that year. We took our places and, as Yongsu...
Darren C. Demaree’s “Eat the Hummingbird #10” in Houseguest Magazine
By Darren C. Demaree The ego that ridesthe just-felt spasms of heatfrom the sun’s last lightdoesn’t disappearonce the roof’s edge becomes the limitof our vantage point. We will inventwhole other worldswith a thousand different suns,
Smeary Flowers, 1983 by Lauren Camp in Hobart
By Lauren Camp All I wanted was the haze of a worn gown of sleep after the scrape of that honey-sipped night. I laid backon the seat to the space around thinking, to the stitch of each parcel and limb. That night
The Lovers and the Leavers by Abeer Hoque
Congratulations to Abeer Hoque, whose new novel in stories The Lovers and the Leavers is out now from HarperCollins India, Bengal Lights Books.From Bengal Lights Books, "Komola is a maid from rural Bangladesh working in Dhaka. 'Before You Eat' is the beginning of her...
Soul Retrieval in The Southwest by Lana Spendl appearing in Hobart
By Lana Spendl At my friend’s bonfire on a chilly Southwestern night, a blond woman in Birkenstocks approached me and said that her name was Singing Humyn.“Singing Human?” I asked.“Singing Humyn, with a ‘y,’” she said. She was a shaman, she explained.Questions sprang...