The sun never came Instead: Rain The sky covered In a blanket of velvet, Glistening with water. A goddess weeps, A sad mother Sees the...

Four Small Walls By Garrett Van Tiem It has been some time since the door closed. Its last time ajar was only a brief separation,...

By Deanne Stillman The ladies’ room at the Tres Hombres Restaurant in Hawaii is named Gidget. A cook on the Internet calls herself...

“For Hugging My Friend Susan” The severity of our situation struck me The night my friend Susan arrived “Heyyyyyyyy! So good to see you!”...

By Art Hanlon And I know Martin Eden’s gonna be proud of me… Tom Waits Shiver Me Timbers When I think of my last year as a kid, it...

Micro documentary providing a brief overview of Spanish Colonialism in the Monterey Bay. Directed by Ben Mooney. Written by Ben Mooney...

By Tod Goldberg Two weeks out of Joliet, Peaches Pocotillo got a job delivering lost baggage for an outfit working O’Hare called Allied...

Three Poems VISION Last night, my eyes could not meet in the middle. My left saw a wall where my right saw a window. My son spoke to me,...

By Adam Sullivan I pulled into a parking spot on the top floor of the massive garage. Emily had fallen asleep in her child-safety seat...

By Daniela Z. Montes I ran across UCSB’s bike path, narrowly avoiding a hoard of bikers headed home, to their next class, or wherever. It...

By Melissa Naugle Melissa Naugle is a Master’s student at California State University, Monterey Bay where she studies climate change and...

By A.M. Larks It’s Great to Suck at Something is first and foremost a book about passion, and for Karen Rinaldi that passion is surfing....

By Devi Laskar [KJ] Can you talk about why you chose photography? DEVI S. LASKAR: I chose photography as art form and as therapy. In...

By Mark Johnson Nobody had said anything for a good two minutes. We were captivated by the bricks beneath our feet. Then I heard glass...

By Mark A. Larks I was five years old when I learned that my house was haunted. I woke up one night to what I can only describe as a...

By Cat Gwynn [Kelp] Can you talk about why you chose photography? What does this form provide that other media does not? Photography...

upanddown in Mykonos departing the Calcutta of Mykonos in a beatup tinycar orange but peeling orangeanddented we review with host...

By George Kotlik Whether or not hobos actually lived there is a point of contention. We may never know. One thing, however, is certain: a...

By Pauline Gostling Wanting to immerse myself in the timeless beauty of the estuary, I cross the misty playing fields to the little café...

I love surfing, but not surf culture. That is to say that surfing brings me profound joy. It’s a fun, meditative act that makes me feel...