April 6, 2019

Carve Magazine

Spring 2019

The Button Maker's House by Sakae Manning

April 6, 2019

Carve Magazine

Spring 2019

The Button Maker's House by Sakae Manning

The wind howled through the San Gabriel Mountains and pushed right up into every crack and crevice of the chilly old mapmaker’s house.

April 6, 2019

Carve Magazine

Spring 2019

Heart of Gold by Tom Howard (Fiction Winner)

April 6, 2019

Carve Magazine

Spring 2019

Heart of Gold by Tom Howard (Fiction Winner)

We’ve fallen in love. In lust. In something, anyway. In any case, we have fallen.

January 15, 2018

Carve Magazine

Winter 2018

Cadenza by Naira Kuzmich

January 15, 2018

Carve Magazine

Winter 2018

There was once a composer. Or a critic. She did not remember exactly.

October 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

Richard by David J. Wingrave

October 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

The boy sits on his parents’ bed. His mother sits on the floor. Outside, a few soapsud clouds drift against the blue. 

January 15, 2016

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Winter 2016

La Cuesta Encantada by Colette Sartor

January 15, 2016

Carve Magazine

Winter 2016

The last thing Althea needed with Owen missing was Irene nosing around.

January 15, 2016

Carve Magazine

Winter 2016

Possession by Adrienne Celt

January 15, 2016

Carve Magazine

Winter 2016

Millicent’s husband has gone insane.

December 15, 2013

Carve Magazine

Winter 2013

The Hard Years by Emma Pattee

December 15, 2013

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Winter 2013

When Janey comes home, she brings the rain with her.

June 15, 2013

Carve Magazine

Summer 2013

George II by David Malone

June 15, 2013

Carve Magazine

Summer 2013

Arrive early on a grey-stained morning at the café she has chosen. Press your face against the locked glass door.

June 15, 2013

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Summer 2013

Cigarettes in Heaven by Jon Pearson

June 15, 2013

Carve Magazine

Summer 2013

Bill felt such a feeling of forgiveness, sitting in his truck at the light.

September 15, 2011

Carve Magazine

Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

Stalled Symphony by Liesl Wilke

September 15, 2011

Carve Magazine

Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

The women in the Hearthstone Mall bathroom are not unlike horses at the gate, competing in a race they don’t understand, didn’t sign up for, won’t admit exists.

September 15, 2011

Carve Magazine

Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

Oregon Grind by Rick Attig

September 15, 2011

Carve Magazine

Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

In the thin shade of the ragged stand of poplars, Foster raised a fist of bloody gauze into the air.

June 15, 2011

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Summer 2011

Some Of Us Can Leave by Sara Schaff

June 15, 2011

Carve Magazine

Summer 2011

People say your life flashes before your eyes right before you die, but it also happens when you find out you’re pregnant.

December 15, 2010

Carve Magazine

Winter 2010, Raymond Carver Contest

When You Cross the Border by Molly Greeley

December 15, 2010

Carve Magazine

Winter 2010, Raymond Carver Contest

When You Cross the Border by Molly Greeley

When your mother refuses to talk to you after your marriage, you will turn to your husband and say, “She’ll come around to us in time.”

December 15, 2010

Carve Magazine

Winter 2010, Raymond Carver Contest

It Was So Long Ago by Amber Krieger

December 15, 2010

Carve Magazine

Winter 2010, Raymond Carver Contest

Henry can still feel the pressure under his tires.

September 15, 2010

Carve Magazine

Fall 2010

MG Repairs by Sam Gridley

September 15, 2010

Carve Magazine

Fall 2010

The MG, I call it, the mental gate—the most important quality of mind.

June 15, 2009

Carve Magazine

Summer 2009, Raymond Carver Contest

Zero Pressure by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

June 15, 2009

Carve Magazine

Summer 2009, Raymond Carver Contest

Sickle cell is not just a black disease. Though this fact has been public for decades, people still startle when they find out that I have it.

March 15, 2008

Carve Magazine

Spring 2008

Customer of Size by Mary Jones

March 15, 2008

Carve Magazine

Spring 2008

Richard Foster knows that he is a fat man.

September 15, 2007

Carve Magazine

Fall 2007

This One Thing by Jaren Watson

September 15, 2007

Carve Magazine

Fall 2007

Carlton is huge. Even for a Great Pyrenees, known for their size and snowy fur like a fresh avalanche, he is colossal.

March 15, 2007

Carve Magazine

Spring 2007

Drinking in the Loons by Stephen MacKinnon

March 15, 2007

Carve Magazine

Spring 2007

Drinking in the Loons by Stephen MacKinnon

My wife Helene says she now has a lover who makes her purr like a kitten.

March 15, 2007

Carve Magazine

Spring 2007

When Snow Falls on Atlantic City by Nate House

March 15, 2007

Carve Magazine

Spring 2007

When Snow Falls on Atlantic City by Nate House

Her feet were cold.