July 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Summer 2017

Measures of Time by Andrea Eberly

July 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Summer 2017

Paul sat on the toilet and held his hand out the window, cigarette hanging from his fingers. Der Spiegel lay on his hairy thighs opened to an article about the European Union’s newest member states. And then he heard it.

January 23, 2017

Carve Magazine

Winter 2017

The Feast by K.C. Mead-Brewer

January 23, 2017

Carve Magazine

Winter 2017

We took Emmaline on what promised to be a particularly stormy night. It wasn’t hard to do, especially since all the police and alarm company people were right there in the mob with us.

January 23, 2017

Carve Magazine

Winter 2017

Bliss by Rachel Blakley Ball

January 23, 2017

Carve Magazine

Winter 2017

They could not afford the honeymoon Alicia wanted most — mossy-hilled Ireland or terraced, pastel Cinque Terre — but she managed to find a getaway closer nearby, in Cape Meares, that would still feel far from home.

October 24, 2016

Carve Magazine

Fall 2016, Raymond Carver Contest

A Wave Breaking by Phoebe Driscoll

October 24, 2016

Carve Magazine

Fall 2016, Raymond Carver Contest

Aiden weighed 104 pounds and the gap between his front teeth seemed to widen every time he checked with his tongue. He had a place that belonged to him in a private and warm way: Byhalia, Mississippi.

July 15, 2016

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Summer 2016

Daughters by Tayler Heuston

July 15, 2016

Carve Magazine

Summer 2016

I stood between the melons in the produce section at Lundardi’s, honeydew and watermelon, thinking about the lost daughters of the world.

April 15, 2016

Carve Magazine

Spring 2016

Love Story for Marie, All High at Palomino's by William Russell Wallace

April 15, 2016

Carve Magazine

Spring 2016

I wrote Marie back. It was a love letter, a farewell card. That was over a year ago now. She responded, in a way, but then there weren’t any more letters.

April 15, 2016

Carve Magazine

Spring 2016

Working for the Mystic by Gretchen Schrafft

April 15, 2016

Carve Magazine

Spring 2016

I’ve been working for the mystic for almost six months now. So far, I like it a lot better than my previous job — cocktail waitressing at a strip club in North Beach called The Condor.

December 15, 2013

Carve Magazine

Winter 2013

Eminence by Caroline Casper

December 15, 2013

Carve Magazine

Winter 2013

We once had to make a list of all the things we didn’t remember.

June 15, 2013

Carve Magazine

Summer 2013

Human Voices Drown Us by Sandra Hunter

June 15, 2013

Carve Magazine

Summer 2013

I want to do this. I keep telling the body we want this; this is it. But the body has other ideas.

September 15, 2012

Carve Magazine

Fall 2012, Raymond Carver Contest

The Odyssey by Jia Tolentino*

September 15, 2012

Carve Magazine

Fall 2012, Raymond Carver Contest

An 18-wheeler carrying ten thousand kilos of watermelons had wrecked spectacularly, spilling its cargo from a height of two kilometers, near the peak of the Tu-Ashu mountain pass that looms over the cold northern provinces of Kyrgyzstan.