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Jul 25, 20242 min read

[Poetry] Two Poems by Purbasha Roy

Becomings of a sea A girl broke the soil and turned into sea how, each had the same question like feelings of hunger by empty tummies...

Jul 23, 202411 min read

[Fiction] Beach Influence

By Liz Lydic Coming from Michigan, Janis thought she knew the beach. On the evening before her flight, while chatting on the phone, she...

Jul 18, 20242 min read

[Poetry] Three Poems by Paul Brooke

Catastrophic Molt —For elephant seals when the top layer of fur and skin molts, it leaves them unable to swim or feed for a month....

Jul 16, 20249 min read

[Essay] A Whippoorwill Call

By Sherri Harvey The whippoorwill is so named for its call—three whistled notes that sound like “whip-poor-will.” It could repeat this...

Jul 1, 20243 min read

[Poetry] Four Poems by Katrina Kaye

Begin Again begin with the ocean the wet sand hard underfoot the waves seeping in soft foam sticking to ankles as the water pulls us soak...

Jul 1, 20244 min read

[Essay] The Pickup Truck Museum

by Lisa Loop I spent my morning behind a 1978 Chevy truck on the 134 east. These days, when I see one of these old trucks, I want to...

Jul 1, 20242 min read

[Review] of Adieu: A Memoir of Holocaust Survivor by Alfred J. Lakritz

by Maria Duarte In Adieu: A Memoir of Holocaust Survivor Alfred J. Lakritz takes the reader through his and his family’s journey of...

Jul 1, 20243 min read

[Poetry] Five Poems by Trina Gaynon

Brown Pelicans Huntington Beach Wetlands They hover outside the sanctuary, Between sand and sea— Prayers when flying or floating, Moving...

Jul 1, 202413 min read

[Interview] with Alex Espinoza

by Betty-Jo Tilley Alex Espinoza’s The Sons of El Rey is an epic family drama set amid the theatrical, sensational world of lucha libre....

Jul 1, 202423 min read

[Fiction] Leftover Effervescence

by Brenna Humphreys But, oh, the afterlife. How it teases and haunts, how it bleeds into this life. —Betsy Sholl, “Concerning the Soul”...

Jul 1, 20244 min read

[Essay] New Mexico to Major Tom

by Sean Stiny The gin-clear runoff from abundant winter snow meanders down spontaneous falls. The rum-colored Rio Grande holds sway...

Jul 1, 202413 min read

[Fiction] P.E.

by Michael Scott Moore 1991 I can tell you how come we don’t ride to school with Schuyler and them in the morning anymore, but you have...

Jul 1, 202411 min read

[Interview] with Nicholas Belardes

by Betty Jo Tilley If you’re hearing about Nicholas Belardes for the first time right here in the safe pages of Kelp, once you’ve read...

Jul 1, 202413 min read

[Fiction] Host

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...

Jul 1, 202426 min read

[Fiction] Dry Drowning

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...

Jul 1, 20247 min read

[Fiction] Surfer’s End

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...

Jul 1, 202415 min read

[Interview] with Vicki Valosik

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

Jul 1, 202410 min read

[Fiction] The La Calma

[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...

Jul 1, 20243 min read

[Poetry] Three Poems by Jamie Brisick

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...

Jul 1, 202413 min read

[Essay] Carnie Abe

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...

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