The Range
Our son returned to the mountaintop dirt-stained and soaking wet, no backpack, his clothes torn with jagged maws of fabric, blond hair in a muddy clump. As he … Read the rest
Tara Isabel Zambrano
Our Sons Wrote, Glorious Days Are About To Come
CW: Conflict Zone Violence
After guerilla training in the mountains, our sons came back with machine guns and grenades, their cheeks … Read the rest
Nick Sabolik
Before We Stopped Speaking
I once watched my friend fall from a height of thirty stories and live. Well, not live, but you know what I mean.
At first I … Read the rest
Alison Braid
Carpet
The widower paid for the abortion, but he wouldn’t come with her. Olive called Susannah from the clinic after it was all over. Olive spoke into the phone and … Read the rest
Guest Editor Tomás Q. Morín: A Special Feature
"When West Branch invited me to be a guest editor, I told Josh I wanted the story if it was still free. This time, to my absolute delight, it was."
Patrick Thomas Henry
Seven Flock the Transom: From the Wire Reports
On the morning that Chet Alpine publishes his list “Six Surprising Birds That Will Fuck You Up,” the editors of TrendWire email … Read the rest
Jehanne Dubrow
You Must Stumble
The memorials are made of concrete and covered in brass. Each one is the size and shape of a small cobblestone, measuring 96 by 96 millimeters. They’re … Read the rest
Naomi Kanakia
“These days, all stories need to be adventure stories.”
Sarah Heying
Sarah Heying is currently working on a PhD in Oxford, MS. She received her MFA from McNeese State University, and her short stories have previously appeared in The Greensboro Review, Broken Pencil, Kestrel, and elsewhere.
Carolyn Zaikowski
Carolyn Zaikowski is the author of the novels In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016) and A Child Is Being Killed (Aqueous Books, 2013.) Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared widely, in such publications as Washington Post, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, PANK, DIAGRAM, Huffington Post, and Everyday Feminism. She holds an MFA from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Find her online at www.carolynzaikowski.com.
