Issue #55 – Call for Submissions

Not just dirt as mess, but dirt as method, material, and metaphor.

March 5, 2026

We are looking for short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, visual art, and photography that explore all the dirty things we’re told to scrub away… and what happens when they stick around.…

Featured Fiction

Giselle Decides to Stop Thinking

Francine Witte |

January 27, 2022

Can’t stop thinking how he flirted with the waitress, said she belongs in a painting, and he’d become a painter just for that. Giselle tries to hold her thoughts the way she can hold her breath. Hold still and still.…

Fiction

You Know, You Can Die From That

Francine Witte |

July 24, 2019

This is what Merton says when he sees me eating an ice cream cone over the sink in the office break room. “And Jen? he adds, “I’m talking real death.”…