Issue: NiftyLit #6

Elinora Westfall

"It was the woman by the window who made her stay - the woman who, by chance, or perhaps something else entirely, was sitting perfectly still, and perfectly framed between the ever disappearing ribbons of steam."

Jasper Glen

everything I do is #love. / Visa, Mastercard, Paypal? The transaction / Is final sale and has gone through. / Extra charge? I don’t care. My budget / Is infinite.

Linds Sanders

"It was the first time she’d seen him since the divorce and she felt it was so personal: witnessing him in a private moment of getting his solitary needs met."

Matthew Feinstein

"No second cycle. / Instead, I suffocate my wardrobe / with a trash bag, make it my hamper’s / neighbor for the week."

Peter Mladinic

"The waxen hands / in the casket looked like hands / that knotted the flowered tie he wore Sundays / he sat / legs crossed in an easy chair."