• Postcard Prose

  It’s Salty

  By Kelly Hill

  Trying to wrap my mind around living on a tropical island for thirteen years and never once seeing the ocean, I stumbled through my Indonesian vocabulary to say, It’s good. It’s big.
• Travel Notes

  Screensaver

  By Sandra Larson

  A dinosaur dangles over my grandson at the Field Museum near a pink thumb that pops into the prom picture of my granddaughter dressed in strapless red leaving her house in Medina …
• Travel Notes

  The Value of Small Money

  By Megan Hallinan

  The bill in question is actually a 2,000 West African franc note, and it’s the equivalent of about four U.S. dollars. A helpful sum, really, but as I clutch the weathered crinkle in my sweaty palm, its value feels as dirty as the grime that is undoubtedly being transferred to my fingers.
• Poetry

  Two Poems by F. J. Williams

  to Egg and Berry brewery, to the pack / of Czechy words I made but didn’t work / in this pink town. I’d readily go back / to your best spots, the unfired gun, that perk //
• Poetry

  Imaginary Oceans

  By Jason Warren

  And if the neap tides of my beauty / sadden him, I cannot help it: / I hang high, the waxy night light …
• Poetry

  Thessaloniki, Four AM

  By Anastasia Vassos

  Three thousand ancestors ask how I straddle / the sea, a foot on either shore. //

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