From the Editor: Let a Little Sunshine In
By James Carson
My wife and I have debated the origins of the Australian accent for a few years now. I say it is English spoken while squinting, but she says it’s English spoken while smiling.
By James Carson
My wife and I have debated the origins of the Australian accent for a few years now. I say it is English spoken while squinting, but she says it’s English spoken while smiling.
By Christopher Clausen
Unlike our new coronavirus and most strains of flu, the 1918 epidemic was especially dangerous to the young and healthy. My great-aunt Caroline was one of its estimated 675,000 American fatalities.
By Tim Chamberlain
First white man on the island,
Magnus Edgar knew
exactly where his Shetland boots made landfall
on that shale beach.
By Tim Bowling
My family was poor, but we didn’t live in poverty. My father made a subsistence living from the commercial salmon fishery at the mouth of the Fraser River, and my mother sometimes clerked in the five-and-dime store when the domestic budget required a boost.
By Jean Van Loon
Crisp grey condos
climb a rocky spine.
Curved-wall resort presides
over a foam-footed promontory.
By Peter Unwin.
Perhaps the most exciting moment in the history of amateur sports took place in a summer gale eight years ago on the north shore of Lake Superior.
By Erwin Wiens
It happens often, when you’re just a boy.
You forget what’s in them. Unthinking,
you plunge your hand down
to the very bottom. Something moist, and sticky.
Then you remember.
Ugh.
We drift to a bar on the canal, amber Nuda e Cruda beer and outside tables in the sunny afternoon. Winter, but we’ve had such good luck with the sun
By Brian Gibson
A deft disaster-comedy, set in a near future way up there, zippily warp-speeds the frantic struggle to contain a crisis.
Face of the Sky
– from the Collections