Taylor Ebersole
Once, Our Overpass

Taylor Ebersole - Once, Our Overpass

Contest - Flash Fiction
Taylor Ebersole lives in Norfolk, Virginia. She is pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University, where she works as a reader for Barely South Review. Her fiction has appeared in… Read more »
Amanda Auchter
Thursday Dinner

Amanda Auchter - Thursday Dinner

Contest - Prose Poem
Amanda Auchter is the author of The Wishing Tomb, winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry and the Perugia Press Book Award, and The Glass Crib, winner of the Zone 3 Press First Book… Read more »
Al Dixon
Wearing Skirts Around My Parents

Al Dixon - Wearing Skirts Around My Parents

Contest - Flash CNF
Al Dixon lives in Athens, Georgia, where he teaches English at the University of Georgia. He’s always been a fiction writer, but at the beginning of the pandemic he started writing essays with two… Read more »

Thursday Dinner - Prose Poem

Amanda Auchter

My husband tells me the chicken is at three o’clock, green beans at six, mashed potatoes with their peppery gravy at nine. I imagine black analog hands, tap my way to the chicken he’s cut. You could poison me, I joke. Arsenic Corn, Strychnine in the gravy. He sets down my glass of tea. Antifreeze, I add. I can’t see the pebbles of ice in the glass. I’m sorry, I say, and tuck a napkin into my collar. I often miss my mouth these days, fork rice into my chin, spill salad down my shirt. Once, a pinto bean fell into my cuff and I found it three hours later. Are you saving it? My husband asked. On the first day of my blindness, there was only a smudge, a distortion. Then, a dirty window you could sit at, filtered sunlight. The glass became caked with wild ivy, mud, sea foam, until it blocked the light, until I left the world and its bright roses. I’m sorry. I’ve become a knife on the floor, spilled tea, a body caught between now and before. A green bean he picks up, drops back onto the plate.

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