The Baby Stretches   The baby stretches— her limbs a little longer than yesterday her voice more assured— imagine, to go to sleep and...

By Cierra Buchholz Emily Janes' fantastically weird and charmingly loveable sophomore novel, Here Beside The Rising Tide , expertly blurs...

Ode to Augusta Wind       Surge forth, Augusta Wind Fathom spirit blood-sworn Resplendent soul tamer Dancing Earth’s regal breath    ...

[KELP JOURNAL]  Let’s dive right in! I chose the following photographs from the many you submitted due to their sense of place. Was that...

Tom Ryan is an internationally best selling, award winning author, screenwriter and producer. His adult mystery debut THE TREASURE...

THE GHOST OF SURFER GIRL They barely notice those filmy footsteps   travelling around them,    kicking up fine grains of sand     as she...

Sand Crabs We wait for the rows of twinned slits to appear like closed eyes on the surface of the swash zone.My stubby six year old...

by Kate Novak “Can I bum a cigarette off you? I left mine in my other jacket at home.” I offer him my pack. He brushes his hair from his...

by Katie Fleming  At fourteen, she had what most girls wanted: a mouth wide enough to consume treetops, teeth enough to pull meat from...

Treading Water My coach told me I'd be a butterfly -er if only I added grace to my freestyle. I don’t remember learning to swim, but I...

By Brad Bailey When I pulled up to the house and saw my father come out the front door, my first inclination was to turn and run. My...

By Maria Duarte The Lyric Hotel by Susan Sisko Carter centers on, Jeanette, a director for commercials who, after her husband’s death,...

By Jim Moores “It was Moby Dick that dismantled me... For forever and a day I shall chase that white whale”. - Captain Ahab Some years...

by Danielle Schatten When I crawled out of the ocean, my tentacles dripping with seawater and my gelatinous skin reflecting a sun that...

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By Ella Boyd I, Caravaggio ,   Eugenio Volpe’s debut novel modernizing the internal narrative of the iconic and infamous Italian painter...

Return to Harborside tidal markings underline a span of palm, index finger crooked, an arch bridge over a typewritten sea, a projection,...

by Jessica Fogal I’m going to vomit.  The telltale signs: the swollen tongue, the difficulty swallowing, the sweat beading above my lip...

By Christopher Lessick Danny’s wife shoved off with his first mate long before dawn on a Sunday morning and left only a rolled-up note...

Love of the Angler a tanka What devastation— the in-malleable nature of my body in your eye. Pricked by the steel...