ISSUE № 

11

a literary journal in multiple time zones

Nov. 2024

ISSUE № 

11

a literary journal in multiple time zones

Nov. 2024

Regions

25,000 Wishes

Julio and Amelia have done everything they can to ignore the ladybug infestation. As dozens multiply into hundreds, it becomes increasingly difficult. Amelia presses...

Excerpt from “The Lighthouse Road”

The Lighthouse Road is available now from Unbridled Books. 1. (November 1896) Some ancient cold had taken root in Thea Eide’s belly, a feeling she’d not...

How We Arrive

One Monday I stood in my kitchen thawing orange juice concentrate, wondering whether to fix a sandwich. It was noon, quiet, and then I...

Empty Nest

  Excerpted from the in-progress linked collection, Joy, Somewhere in the City Laine was in the passenger seat, her husband Gerald at the wheel, when he...

God Time

Harrison’s sister pulls back her hair to show him the gill. A little opening like a mouth on her pale neck. He asks if...

The Eyes of Spies

The double agent slid down the side of a roof and launched, arms waving, across an alley to the next building, followed closely by...

Eva’s Room

After the sun sets behind the bakery, and the sky turns a dark Prussian blue, the children feverishly play their sweetest games before being called in....

Rivals

1998 Pre-Season My sister Wookie moved to Toronto to join The National Ballet. She arrived with a small suitcase in hand, leaving the bulk of...

Sappho Shtoltz Needs a Story

To tell her son. That she is not a blond beauty with black eyes is clear. That she does not shake hands...

The Picture of Feminine Corporate Sensuality

Excerpted from the forthcoming novel Executive Privilege: An Erotic Satire due this fall from Baby Robot Press. Carolyne was a ball of frenzy. She...