“He loves me when he’s sober, when there are no bootleggers.” Dan Branch reflects on being a domestic lawyer in Alaska.

Craftsmanship explores the ethos of craftsmanship in its widest sense. The magazine publishes stories about the most interesting people in the world who work intensely with their hands, from famous masters to new creators.

“We have been teaching our daughter about death all summer.” At Bellingham Review, Maya Jewell Zeller reflects on what it means to leave a legacy.

At Electric Lit, Elizabeth Scanlon shares a trio of poems on this modern life.
 
“Don’t die on the subway platform or you’ll be cursed / by thousands for fucking up their commute / before they even scrape you up. /  Oh the eight thousand inconveniences.”

“Of course I followed, even as I reminded myself that the most persistent bird is still just a bird, neither guide nor messenger. No fairyland would await me around the last bend, no palace of rainbow-hued shell, no enchanted king and sleeping court.” Flash fiction by Sarah Goslee at Fireside Fiction Company.