Michelle McGrane's 'Exhibit 'A''

Exhibit 'A'The McGillivray barnbefore the family murders:To the right you can make outthe timbered stalls, the chaffscattered across the stone floorand at the far endthe open double doors;then, you may noticethe recycled iron hooks hammeredinto the central...

Wynne Huddleston's 'Memory for a Song'

For Sale: Memory for a Song   My grandparents’ house has been sold and moved to a remote corner in the left hemisphere of my brain, but Chopin’s Nocturne in e minor has never left my fingers. My cousin lost her alphabet, the evil joker Stroke erased the...

Ben Rasnic’s ‘Puppet’

Puppet The instant of absolute helplessness when the flash of revolving lights appears in the rear view mirror or when you’re lying naked on the white sanitized tissue stretched across the green exam table and the doctor commands you to roll over on your side, knees...

Roberta Lawson's 'Lotus'

LotusIn our palms, small  talismans. In our palms, small found objects: a photo, a gemstone, a  discarded note. Hand to hand we pass back and forth these tokens as  substitutes for love. Here we do not mention the cold — our words  are only for our...