ISSUES | summer 2025

Foreword: Location, Location, Location  Location is as important in literature and art as it is in real estate. When and where and among whom—setting and milieu—anchor readers and allow them…    read more

Trampoline  I can’t believe we finally got you to come out here, Rick said as he placed Sasha’s bag in the trunk of his SUV. Her bag leaned against two…    read more

In a Yard of Fallen Yellow Peaches I Am Listening to a construction worker singing along loudly with his scratchy little radio, and I am in love with everything. Even…    read more

NYU  It’s been twenty years since I completed my BFA at New York University, but I still clam up when someone asks me about it. Lest I bury the lede,…    read more

Real Estate  The first time I showed the house to Frank Haverford, he led his pregnant wife by the hand through the rooms like a show pony. Though his smile…    read more

FPV  They are somewhere below in that white birch forest. It is springtime and the trees wear fresh green leaves. From above I watch the wind shiver through the foliage.…    read more

City People  Our island was an old mountain sunk in the sea. Maria and I grew up wild girls, playing make-believe along its inlets and bluffs. We did not know…    read more

Two Minds (excerpt) The moon is in the sky, yet we cannot see it. Life is a series of unpredictable events that do not get easier to predict as time…    read more

Teenage Kicks  During the pyramid-scheme days of mail-order CD clubs, most music was new to me. The promises offered in the mid-’90s by Columbia House and BMG in newspaper ads…    read more

Irretrievable   On day nine of our family canoe trip toward the Arctic Ocean, we tipped over. We came around a turn in the river where the current gained unexpected speed,…    read more

Suzanne Valadon of Montmartre    In 1880, when she was fifteen years old, Suzanne Valadon befriended an Italian girl named Clelia who worked as model in Paris. With Clelia’s job came…    read more

Wandering Through the Hearth  Adam Ray Wagner     The Almond by Theodora Walsh, 1080Press, 2024, 40 pp., $15.00 (paperback)  And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight by Lynn…    read more

Alfred Cheney Johnston: Master of the Publicity Photo Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.  – Florenz Zigfield, Jr. The third floor of Alfred Cheney Johnston’s Manhattan…    read more