Poetry

Noun: 1. The quality of being morally good or virtuous

I am good perhaps some of the time. I bake bread, now. Call my mother. She hates to be called, and the bread, wheatless and…

Fiction

Lavender

The cabin’s not in great shape—windows jammed, ceiling cracked, wood floor a patchwork of scars—but it’s clean enough and secluded, tucked deep in the woods.…

First Friday Series

What Could Have Been: Review of Danila Botha’s Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness

At the back of Danila Botha’s collection of short fiction, Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness, is a lengthy acknowledgements section, where Botha thanks all the…

Photography

Saginaw Bay

  These photographs were taken in the summer of 2013 on a camping trip in Bay County, Michigan. The shoreside wildlife was abundant, from the…

First Friday Series

What Could Have Been: Review of Danila Botha’s Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness

At the back of Danila Botha’s collection of short fiction, Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness, is a lengthy acknowledgements section, where Botha thanks all the…

Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

Going to the Lake

I’ve learned that Shetek means pelican in Ojibwe, just as I’ve learned that “going to the lake” for many Minnesotans involves a drive north, a…