Yoshiro Takayasu/Fiction

Yoshiro Takayasu/Fiction

A Kabuki theatre, coloured woodcut triptych by Utagawa Toyokuni, c. 1800; in the British Museum *** A Farce   by Yoshiro Takayasu (translated by Toshiya Kamei) M atsuko had been at loose ends ever since her only son left home and started college. Then Kiiko, a...

Alan Swyer/Fiction

  Kindred Spirits   by Alan Swyer “K now what’s amazing?” Ross said as he and Gelber wolfed down an early morning feast of dumplings and porridge at a dim sum joint in New York’s Chinatown.  “It’s like we went to different...

Richard Kostelanetz/Fiction

??????   ANSWERS A Cycle of Short-Short Stories Richard Kostelanetz In memory of Novalis [For periodical, print continuously with extra space between entries; if a book, one to a page; wide (Latin?), paginated landscape; so far 94. Resequence to move from cliché...
Go Broncos/Fiction by Joe Mills

Go Broncos/Fiction by Joe Mills

Photo by Adrià Crehuet Cano on Unsplash *** Go Broncos!   by Joe Mills M arisa watches Cameron burrow into the team huddle. The kids put their hands towards the center, bow their heads, then, after a moment, whip their arms in the air as they yell,...

Jessica Noyes McEntee/Fiction

  Can You Say Capitalism?   by Jessica Noyes McEntee  Contributing Writer Papa always said, “Princesses have princes to come to their rescue, but you have me. And Donovan, in a pinch—he’s on the payroll for that.” An unsentimental sort, he never followed up...