Issue: My Heart on my Sleeve

David Osgood

"I stretch my leg out over the console to toy with the idea of kicking the steering column into drive and barreling down the canyon to see if we can find a better backyard."

Nick Tantillo

"You need to keep your eyes peeled,” he chuckled. The clean white flesh was gradually revealed, and the dirty bits rinsed away.

Amie Heasley

"Jake realized their family had never once sprawled out on a bed of grass, their eyes staring up into the black quilt pinpricked with diamonds. He had failed at so much, including pointing out his son’s namesake."

Pete Riebling

"This year was a departure—the farm was local, not far away. It seemed in harmony with contemporary mores, though. I was confident I’d outdone myself."

Joelle Byars

"After a long, hard day of training his pigeons, he liked to take off his leg, fill it with Jack Daniels, smoke, and whittle."

H.S. Abraham

"Placing it on the table, / I thread the needle / Piercing my heart as I stitch / It to my sleeve" 

James B. Nicola

"What's that, u liked it? & u laughed?"

Collin Foote

"When my slaughterman’s heart makes a palsied fist and one body enfolds the other, I become my final form, seated at a table with friends I don’t accredit."