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Caliche and Other Poems

The exurban dream of it all, to enter is to have the ability to exit.

Callbacks

We pushed through the doors, back into the audition, among the lithe adults.

Cancer, You Scare Me

I decided to go for the least lousy choice and have the surgery.

Cartoon Art Volume 2010-11

New cartoons from Glen Le Lievre, John Leavitt, P. C. Vey, and more!

Cartoon Art Volume 2013-03

Betty Noir turns a trip to the post office into gripping melodrama.

Cartoon Art Volume 2013-05

Cartoon Art Volume 2014-04

J. C. Duffy

Cartoon Art Volume 2014-07

Cartoon Art Volume 2015-01

Cartoon Art Volume 2015-03

Cartoon Art Volume 2015-04

Cartoon Art Volume 2015-06

Cartoon Art Volume 2015-08

Cartoon Art Volume 2019-02

Cartoon Art Volume 2020-03

Cartoon Art Volume 2021-03

Cello

At the moment we were having that conversation, she already knew.

Cemetery

On the anniversary of your death, a memory sharpens, as if illuminated.

Certain Friends for Certain Secrets

It was like a scene in a movie; it didn’t seem real. The man kicked her.

Chechnya

Sonja slapped her sister. How could she shed tears for the past?

Chechnya

Narrative Prize and Pushcart winner Anthony Marra reads “Chechnya.”

Chechnya

Sonja slapped her sister. How could she shed tears for the past?

Chekhov

Hearing them coughing in the hall, you rose from your desk.

Children of Light

The place your truest self inhabited was the place you could not bear.

Chocolate Cake for Diane

Diane cupped my cheek in her hand, studying me, memorizing me.

Choteau

People only see that side of him. He is still a boy, learning to be a man.

Clark the Saint

Saint Clark, halo and all, patron of wildlife shows and the cigarette tax.

Clearwater

I would chase it to the shores of the lake where the killer waited.

Closely Watched Trains

I put out my lips, and we kissed through the newly painted fence.

Closing Suite: Last Call

Getting over being drunk makes you wonder why the hell you did that.