She was washing a reeking chicken. Taking a dinner party risk, putting the family in the pot along with the vegetables. Smelling wafters of putridity along with the spices. She had certainly cooked a million of them, baked, roasted, boiled. This one was most definitely over the line. Even the washing didn’t seem to remove the nagging smell.
Print & Digital Issues
Featuring: Issue 94, published April 2020, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Rose Mary Boehm, Mark Anthony Burke, Carol A. Caffrey, Tetman Callis, Roger Camp, Kit Carlson, Todd J. Donery, Amy Strauss Friedman, James William Gardner, Wendy Gist, Michael Hower, Dan Jacoby, Jeanne Julian, Marianne Lyon, Allison A. deFreese & María Negroni, Marijean Oldham, Phillip Periman, Andrew Posner, Janet M. Powers, Jennifer Pratt-Walter, Gerard Sarnat, Claire Scott, Jupp Soetebier, Phillip Sterling, Bob Strother, Shoshana Tehila Surek, Teresa Sutton, Joel Wayne, Kelley Jean White, Thomas Reed Willemain, and Guinotte Wise.