FLY AWAY by Melody Kowach
Tags/ Posted by Matt DyeBecause no one could locate her file. / Because sometimes it was thick / like the abdomen of a moth, thin / like a golden-crowned kinglet’s thin song.continue reading this poem
I kick my shoes off, plopping myself down into Aaron’s queen-sized bed and stare at the popcorn ceiling for a minute. Aaron should be coming home in about an hour and I’d prefer to be asleep when that happens. I roll over to open the drawer in his night stand and pull out a canister [...]
PISTACHIO ICE CREAM by Zarina Zabrisky
Tags/ Posted by Jason Reynolds...there is always enough adoration, even in this jilted scrap heap of a world...continue reading this poem
Zoe did not jump off a bridge or a tall building. Instead she shoved Gabriel into his car seat and drove to the New World Russian Deli and Bakery.
“Mommy, I want to go to a toy store,” said Gabriel.
“No,” she said. “Let’s get some ice cream.”
Inside the store, the marinated cabbage and pickled watermelon smelled like home…
EIL Announces First Annual Fiction Contest
Tags/ Posted by Jason ReynoldsA half-naked woman dove into this pool in December.continue reading this poem
Escape Into Life is excited to announce its First Annual Fiction Contest, judged by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler. The contest features $500 in cash prizes and a cornucopia of goodies for its finalists.
Lost Art by Midge Raymond
Tags/ Posted by Jason ReynoldsI know this is not a confession, or a questionnaire, but it is like you are a letter I can't quite get out of the envelope.continue reading this poem
Rodin’s Pierre de Wissant, David Monniaux “You live fifteen miles from Hollywood,” I asked my brother, “and you’re going to Australia to study acting?” “Nicole Kidman went to the Institute,” Nick shouted. He was driving down PCH, with the top down, I guessed, judging by the fury of the wind. “So did Geoffrey Rush.” “That’s [...]
