Posts by Jon Doyle
San Francisco Municipal Bus Routes 43 & 38R
Steven Duong
July yawns. Flashes its grills...
The Sharp Edge of the Crayon
Anna Laird Barto
At last our molars burst forth from the gum and we emerged from the rose-colored womb of our first grade classroom.
The Bottom of the Order: Every Fifth Day
Andrew Forbes
THE SEATTLE MARINERS' history is one long tale of woe studded with infrequently dazzling displays of capability, with all of it adding up to exactly zero championships. I say this as someone who has
500 Words on Immortality
Dimitry Saïd Chamy
Only 498 words remain. So, let's turn to death.
The Night I Could Have Met the Real Matt Damon
Sarah Broussard Weaver
Our waitress bustles around smiling a strangely huge smile for this boring work night. My boyfriend Nick and I don’t follow football and weren’t invited to any parties, and since most Texans are either holding or attending parties the place is pretty deserted. After the waitress brings our waters she follows her normal script and asks if we want to try a signature TGI Fridays drink, but her eyes keep dancing to the bar behind us.
My First Game Console: Nintendo Entertainment System
David Armand
My wife and kids and I are driving around in New Orleans, not too far from where I spent the first years of my life and then the occasional week during the summer when I stayed with my grandmother
Quick Stop
Christina Drill
I was seventeen, so he was a man — had I been older, maybe not.
Three Poems
Brody Parrish Craig
Bible | Vers
Top to Bottom | scan my profile | For Christ’s Sake | Sing Jesus’ Name | I gospel & apostle | Book of Vers | My rural bottom’s up | My crop /top | down along the road | a hym(n) in
Letter Home from Hyperspace #2
Zoë Ryder White
There’s a song in my figurative head
that I can’t shake loose.
When I was a body,
I did so many things with my hands,
I can’t count.
Around here it smells like lightning,
like plasma.
My First Car: A Melted Ford Explorer
Cordelia Wilks
By the time the keys were in my eager teenaged hand, this car had been through some shit. Even ignoring the holes burned into the driver’s-side door, the missing half of the left side mirror, and the warped, discolored metal down the rest of the vehicle, the car was 13 years old already, and it looked it.
The Bottom of the Order: Snap, Go, Fling
Andrew Forbes
The cherry and strawberry seasons have passed; the apples are reddening. Only a few games remain. A Pit Spitter lays down a bunt, and the runner on third crashes in: a perfect suicide squeeze.
Three Poems
Rosebud Ben-Oni
{All I Wanted Was Everything}
You say you know the reason why Archimedes
King Princess, "Make My Bed"
Kaitlyn Herndon
I’ve started to clench my teeth before falling asleep.
Uncommon Prayer
Julia Dixon Evans
He was super into God. He was super into church. And he was super into me