Warm Country

by A. Sønju Editor’s Note: The following image and accompanying .pdf are presented as a continuation of the author’s previous piece on High Contrast Review, Jesus & June.  Inspired by everything from the idea of The Watch – that there is an organization which ‘keeps the engines of change in working order’ – to Cowboy [...]

SLECHT SCHRIJVEN

by Sam Kulla “Oh my god, you are such a bitch!” Becky yelled. The other girl didn’t even answer, just gathered up her towel on her head and wandered into the brush. After she was gone, Becky sat for a minute and thought about swimming, thought about the way her tits were hot.  She hoped [...]

Medicine III

The third installment in a series by Tully Thibeau photo by Evan Thompson “Restore Glacial Lake Missoula” she was saying out loud as she wrote the words at the top of a list in a journal. Listing and journaling was a habit of hers, notepads always in reach. This one was opened, he beheld looking [...]

Jesus & June

Story and photograph by A. Sønju Jesus is in the phone booth waiting for the call. The enduring light of Paradise simmers on the shining blacktop. He tosses a cigarette butt, crushes it under the battered scuff of a steel-toe boot; the kind a fireman might wear. He’s got carpenter jeans and a wife beater [...]

Medicine, II

Part two in a series by Tully Thibeau.  Read Part One. But it’s the emptiness that makes the wheel work (Lao Zi, Dao De Jing, No. 11) Missoula hometowners and lifetime transplants, according to custom, are fully predisposed to speak deadly philosophically but, on occasion, might liken their burg as it once had been by [...]

Medicine

the first fiction of a series by Tully Thibeau This was the new century, just getting started. Young, like the woman. The man was not; he was more like the century that preceded the one that had at long last come to its close. At least, that’s where his values seemed to be located, but [...]