by Erika Janik | Aug 26, 2014 | Magazine Article
Dreams are mysterious. Sleep can transport us to another life where we have tea with the Queen or swim across an ocean. These events—no matter how fantastical—seem real at the time because we don’t know we are dreaming. But what if you did know you were dreaming? The...
by Jenn Sauer | Aug 20, 2014 | Magazine Article
An Ellis Island tableau, Victoria mused, as she slowly snaked her way through the airport security queue. Except rather than remove hats to prove a louse-free head, these huddled masses shed their shoes—no plastic explosives in these Adidas!—each awaiting the official...
by Erika Janik | May 14, 2014 | Magazine Article
Iowa resident Janine Brown’s life changes in an instant when she wins a dream home on the coast of Maine. The only trouble is that there are two Janine Browns living in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and both believe they’ve won the dream home. The two wildly different Janines...
by Nickolas Butler, Jason Smith | May 13, 2014 | Magazine Article
Nickolas Butler was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. His writings have appeared in Christian Science Monitor, Kenyon Review Online, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares, The Progressive, and elsewhere. Butler is a graduate of the...
by Karen Loeb | May 1, 2014 | Magazine Article
“My father is flying, my father is flying,” Rachel chants as they rush around the house in a panic, moving their mattress down to the tatami room and making their bedroom ready for the visit. “Do you realize he’ll be here twenty-one days? That’s one-fifth of our stay...
