October 14, 2018

Carve Magazine

Fall 2018

Conflagration by Suzanne Barefoot

October 14, 2018

Carve Magazine

Fall 2018

Last summer, my mother began the burning right after my father choked to death on a chicken thigh.

July 15, 2018

Carve Magazine

Summer 2018

Dog Days by Gena Ellett

July 15, 2018

Carve Magazine

Summer 2018

I find the first dog on the street outside our apartment.

April 15, 2018

Carve Magazine

Spring 2018

Sardines, Sandbox, Devil by Katie Young Foster

April 15, 2018

Carve Magazine

Spring 2018

On the Fourth of July, 1999, my younger brother jumped off the kitchen counter and cracked his forehead against a claw-foot stool.

April 15, 2018

Carve Magazine

Spring 2018

Sal Wants to Sleep by Serena Johe

April 15, 2018

Carve Magazine

Spring 2018

Sal feels time the way other people feel a shower spray’s gradually escalating heat.

April 15, 2018

Carve Magazine

Spring 2018

Peach by Thomas Gresham (Fiction Winner)

April 15, 2018

Carve Magazine

Spring 2018

Go back, way back, to when you were small and unhardened.

April 15, 2018

Carve Magazine

Spring 2018

Stories of Men and Women by M.K. Narváez (Nonfiction Winner)

April 15, 2018

Carve Magazine

Spring 2018

When I was seven years old the maid told me about a man who kidnapped a young girl.

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.

January 15, 2018

Carve Magazine

Winter 2018

Insomnia by Hannah Rahimi

January 15, 2018

Carve Magazine

Winter 2018

Here is what I dreamt when I finally got to sleep in the early morning: Someone had taken all the eggs from my fridge and devilled them.

January 15, 2018

Carve Magazine

Winter 2018

Anna Calls to Me From the Kitchen by David Sugarman

January 15, 2018

Carve Magazine

Winter 2018

The trees on my street were not well.

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. 

October 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

Laughing and Turning Away by Patrick Holloway

October 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

Laughing and Turning Away by Patrick Holloway

The first time I had a gun pointed at me I was 14 and I ran home crying, and my brother laughed at me, calling me burra, saying I’d better get used to it. I didn’t know if he meant getting used to seeing guns or getting used to being stupid.

October 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

Homecoming by Zachary Lunn

October 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

Josh lit a Marlboro Light and hung his arm out the passenger window of his father’s Ford Taurus.

July 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Summer 2017

A Survivor Story by Dan Hernandez

July 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Summer 2017

When Colin left the House for the first time after his last treatment cycle, he said he was “going to grab some air.”

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.

July 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Summer 2017

The Difficult Kind by Stephanie Austin

July 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Summer 2017

So, it snowed. Just a little.

July 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Summer 2017

A Girl Called Penny by Jacqueline Guidry

July 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Summer 2017

A Girl Called Penny by Jacqueline Guidry

By the end of my first month of piano, Miss Harry pretty much pronounced me void of rhythm and close to tone deaf but tried to be tactful in laying out my faults, not wanting to offend my mother.

April 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Spring 2017

Next to Godliness by Lacey Jane Henson

April 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Spring 2017

After Mom and Dad split up for the third time, Dad left immediately and Mom spent a record-breaking week in her bathrobe.

January 23, 2017

Carve Magazine

Winter 2017

Show and Tell by Miriam Cohen

January 23, 2017

Carve Magazine

Winter 2017

Yael’s parents ask if she has any questions, and she does, but she suspects they aren’t the right ones. She wants to know if she will have two toothbrushes now or if she will bring the same one back and forth, its bristles wrapped in shredding tissue to keep from getting germy.

January 23, 2017

Carve Magazine

Winter 2017

Spill by Eric Cipriani

January 23, 2017

Carve Magazine

Winter 2017

They’ve finally done it, found a way to kill us all. This is how my father greets me on the phone this morning. “It’s on Channel 7,” he says.

October 24, 2016

Carve Magazine

Raymond Carver Contest, Fall 2016

And It Is My Fault by Janet Towle

October 24, 2016

Carve Magazine

Raymond Carver Contest, Fall 2016

Sometimes PJ imagined herself as an embryo, floating in a tempered glass tube in a laboratory somewhere off the coast of northern California...