by Terence Young “Nobody’s home, Henry.” “You are.” “You want to see my parents, Henry, and they aren’t here right now. They’ve gone...

by Amanda Nowlin Sammie, a real estate friend of my parents, is driving us around in her old white Cadillac big enough for a garden...

by Kevin B Near the rock where tourists posed for photos, there was a spot where no one was meant to sit. Constance scaled the rock under...

by Leanne Phillips This promises to be a good summer for synchronized swimming, renamed “artistic swimming” by World Aquatics (formerly...

[Fiction] The La Calma by Andrew Eastwick For much of my eleventh year Mother and I lived in La Calma Inn. We never called it “The La...

Love Juices —Did love whack you over the head, multiple times, even when you least expected it? —It did. —Did it splatter you in its...

by Perrin Pring I’ll call him Abe. Carnie Abe. Let me back up. In college, during the summers, I worked for a company as a river rafting...

by Krista Puttler I learned to surf on a gentle, rolling break called Canoes. It’s the one tourists are told they’ll be able to surf once...

by M. Golda Turner Surfers peel off wetsuits by their parked cars on a cliffside road. I carry my board toward them, knowing that these...

by Shannon Presby Jenna used to say she could hear the soundtrack of anyone’s life. I didn’t really believe her. She liked to make things...

Standard Lesson You take the monster to the sea because the nervous system runs on sodium: voltage-gated channels conducting ions...

[KELP JOURNAL] The first thing I usually ask photographers is what do you look for in a shot? What makes you press the shutter down?...

Stowaways i. The hagfish that (burrows) into the corpse of a beluga. ii. Pearlfish (shelters) in the unmentionable of a sea cucumber....

By A.M. Larks I was lucky enough to catch the California World Premiere of “Wipeout” by Aurora Real de Asua on the closing weekend at the...

Our Bodies are Mostly Water “All forms of pollution eventually make their way to water.” —a scientist Today it was announced as the first...

by Joanna Szeto Tiffany had thousands of dolphins in her room. She knows, she’s counted them. She had wall to wall posters of dolphins...

Seaside If you gathered those who once claimed their love as my name each would pull you aside, rough-palmed and storm-eyed, saying press...

By Nadja Velez Photos: marine caves of Ponta João D’Arens, Southwestern Algarve (Portugal). Taken by author while freediving. Through...

Paper Moon We walk the paper road between the village and the sea lit by moonlight. The oysters are busy opening and closing, blinking...

[KELP JOURNAL] Sonali, I chose your photographs because there is something so captivating about the power of this river that you have...