Narrative Magazine | Writers, Fiction, Poetry, Storytelling, Nonfiction, Art

STORY OF THE WEEK

Hunters

By Ola Szczecinska

I imagine the hunt—visions of truth, revelations, forgiveness. A sudden, radical acceptance of the way things are: all the pain, the cruelty.

POEM OF THE WEEK

Self-Portrait as Boo Radley

By Harrison Hamm

When I was no longer welcome in church, I was welcome to my solitude. To question religion in a big empty house, haunted by bigger emptier questions.

POETRY

Sweeter

By Yong-Yu Huang

This is what passes for dreaming in the blue house, the decay of my good days. Again, the bowl of fruit awash in the creeping light.

POETRY

Illicit

By Cate Lycurgus

touching you is a dash in the paragraph of not touching you fragment in the sentence of not seeing you seeing you is a colon amid clauses of not seeing

GRAPHIC STORIES

Some Things I Actually Would Like to Elevate . . .

By Tracey K. Berglund

Women are constantly encouraged to “Elevate” our careers, our lifestyles, our portfolios, our skin care regimens, our get-aways.

GRAPHIC STORIES

A Library Grows in the Bronx

By Ali Solomon

We used to visit with my grandfather in his Bronx apartment. His building's laundry room was like a little free library, only big and musty.