December 2022

Outer Banks: A Note

Jason Gray

One of the horses has a wounded leg. / It doesn’t seem to mind, though the skin shines

Headache

Jessica Hwang

They tell me I’m married. A gold band encircles my left ring finger, but the short stocky man with a faltering smile and probing eyes is a stranger to me

Grown Men Don’t Cry

Mary Taugher

In the stillness of his basement workshop, surrounded by his tools and half-finished projects, Ed Foley is cranking a clamp around a cracked table leg when the wooly spider returns