Prose
Alligator Skin
Catherine Carson explores family history and stability in her hometown of Marianna, Florida...
An Excerpt from Mr. Eternity
Key West, 2016. Sea levels are rising, coral reefs are dying. In short, everything is going to hell...
The Strongest Man in the World
He placed his hand on her hip, but she coiled herself more tightly and moved away from him. His nuts felt small and hard, like tiny fists.
The Trouble With Tom
There is a girl in Brooklyn with two toes conjoined. Well, four, to be precise – two on each foot. Her respective pointer toes are attached to her respective middle toes by a ribbon of flesh that runs two-thirds of the way up. Tom learned about this physical quirk of hers one spring afternoon in a city park when she had asked him to please not look at her feet. He looked at them anyway and she shuddered in the fresh air, but he smiled when he saw her Siamese toes, touched them and said they were special.
Top 10 Impressions of Florida by the Dutch Author Guy
On the Florida stretch of his US book tour, Thomas Olde Heuvelt encounters cars, shark-infested waters, warm welcomes, a shooting, and more cars...
Solve for Ways to Disappear
A word problem: Alysia packs two suitcases. She boards a westward-bound plane with an average cruising speed of 570 mph, leaving behind one ex-boyfriend, one cat, and one current boyfriend. If the plane flies continuously for 7.45 hours, and if Alysia stays in the city of her final destination for four months, loses ten pounds, and starts sleeping with another ex, how much closer to happiness will she be than when she first arrived through immigration? Please show your work in the blank space below...
On Literary Pilgrimage
A long way from New Zealand, writer Robert Metcalf encounters Orlando's literary community and those who seek to commune with the spirit of Jack Kerouac...
Mary, Mary
When Mary was executed, the first cut of the ax missed her neck and hit the back of her head. The second cut hit her neck, but didn’t slice all the way through. A stubborn strip of flesh held her together until the executioner sawed through it.
The doctor placed his hand on the top of my head. Be careful with this, he said. There’s really not so much holding it all together.
The next day, I packed up and left school. I knew that at some point I’d have to go back and finish, either this school or a different one, but it didn't matter. I already knew it would never feel over.
Central Florida, March
Grandma gets lost in Publix, forgets about the raisins for her Irish soda bread. Grandpa kills us on the way to dinner, twice...