New Fiction Story in the Nest
by Phi Le
“Not once in my life have I ever been considered good-looking or remarkable in any way. I have an utterly forgettable face, and I generally don’t like to say much. That’s fine. I just do what I’m supposed to” by Phi Le
New Poems in the Nest
“There are night patterns and day patterns and / butterflies evolving from moths after being like / what if we’re awake during the day…”
By Fran Matos
”lifted us up / into a multicolored sky. A song did / this, when sloshed into the half-truths / of teenhood”
By Guinotte Wise
New Poems in the Nest by Kailah Figueroa
“Memory does not flinch at my interrogation. I can’t go back. I leave it there alone.”
from “Two Inlets in Winter”
“I make you laugh but not on purpose. I don’t want to be a funny woman anymore. I want to be a good man for you.” from “Our Names Are Not On the Mortgage but We Are Playing Homeowners For a Bit”
New Poems in the Nest
“to scar as a man might.”
from For Shelley and Stryker, who leapt from the head of Zeus By Sebastian Ellios
”I am thinking / of sound of the sound of / the clatter on the tile of / the tile on which I shattered.”
from Restlessness By Flora Field
New Poems in the Nest
“Walking away / is cheaper than packing again and renting another truck.”
by Monique Lanier
“believe me: I would do anything for / closeness. I watch / dawn rust against the horizon."
by Ben Togut
An Honorable Mention from our Fiction Contest
“Douglas continued to watch the man—so tall, hairless, and awkward—as he marveled at the cocktail shaker. He seemed both familiar and strange all at once.”