Planet as Patient | Mary Oak
Medical Notes for Terra Gaia. Occupation: Creator and Sustainer. Age: Unknown. Appears to be around 4.5 billion years old. Not insured.
Caves | Eliot Treichel
While it’s a story about change (both sudden and geologic), “Caves” ultimately is a story about our capacities to imagine one another, to imagine a restoration of ourselves and our families and our environment—to imagine the opposite of that and everything we have to lose.
Opah by Gavin Duncan
I’m evaporating in your sleep, melting through the seat cushions, and now, just when you thought this feeling meant something.
Fireworks on the Moon by Kristina Saccone
The moon was an achievement for all of us. It was also a dimly lit, grey place, where revelry was what we made of it.
Reunion on the St. Joe by Chelsey J. Waters
She glances downstream toward a big evergreen—a white pine, maybe?
Return, by Tara Campbell
Google, find growths that are pale and stringy, that looked like fat hairs the one time he let you see them.
Phases of Reparations, by Alissia J.R. Lingaur
Another week had passed since her hair progressed from green to blue to indigo, and she was sent home to await violet, the final shade.
The Man Who Spoke to the Dryads, Michael Forester
He would have his clients lie supine on the floor, place them into trance with a combination of murmured incantations ...
The Thaw
For all the talk of warmth and rebirth, spring is a really ugly season. Trails turn to mud pits and roads to rivers as the thaw begins to take hold, and the brown carcasses of what was left at the end of fall begin to reappear. The ground cover is a layer of partially decayed leaves, and all the damage the winter did is slowly revealed.
The Siren
Sometimes someone will drown in another part of the river and I can’t help, because the river is large and I am only one person.