April 24, 2020

Carve Magazine

Spring 2020

The Summer the Bees are Gone by Ashley Hand

April 24, 2020

Carve Magazine

Spring 2020

The Summer the Bees are Gone by Ashley Hand

I showed up barefoot on Gloria’s doorstep, a towel wrapped around my body and cinched under my armpits, my hair dripping down my back.

April 24, 2020

Carve Magazine

Spring 2020

Invent Everything by Chris Vanjonack

April 24, 2020

Carve Magazine

Spring 2020

Fourth period, during science class—ninth grade with Mrs. Kalipsky—you somehow manage to open an interdimensional portal…

April 24, 2020

Carve Magazine

Spring 2020

Luna by Reece McCormack

April 24, 2020

Carve Magazine

Spring 2020

There was a problem with joyriding in our village at the time.

April 24, 2020

Carve Magazine

Spring 2020

Lump by David J. Wingrave

April 24, 2020

Carve Magazine

Spring 2020

I knew for sure Wilkes was in love the day he told me a dead whale had washed up on Putsborough Sands.

April 24, 2020

Carve Magazine

Spring 2020

A Simple Case by Nancy Ludmerer (Fiction Winner)

April 24, 2020

Carve Magazine

Spring 2020

A Simple Case by Nancy Ludmerer (Fiction Winner)

I knew the basics from the Berkshire Eagle before I got the call in Estate of Mooney v. Wilkins and Jayce Farm.

April 24, 2020

Carve Magazine

Spring 2020

From the Book on Pit Firing Pottery by Sarah Sousa (Poetry Winner)

April 24, 2020

Carve Magazine

Spring 2020

From the Book on Pit Firing Pottery by Sarah Sousa (Poetry Winner)

I should have liked the burning more than I did.

April 24, 2020

Carve Magazine

Spring 2020

Cleft by Jason M. Glover (Nonfiction Winner)

April 24, 2020

Carve Magazine

Spring 2020

Cleft by Jason M. Glover (Nonfiction Winner)

This is how surgery works: “Count down with me: ten, nine, eight…”

January 15, 2020

Carve Magazine

Winter 2020

Bearing by Alissa Hattman

January 15, 2020

Carve Magazine

Winter 2020

When Hudson first meets Aubrey, they bond over guns.

January 15, 2020

Carve Magazine

Winter 2020

The Catherine Wheel by Emily Howorth

January 15, 2020

Carve Magazine

Winter 2020

The symptom that first brought my father to the doctor was vague: a heaviness in the side of his chest, close to his armpit, that ached at the end of the day.

January 15, 2020

Carve Magazine

Winter 2020

Remains by Sam Simas

January 15, 2020

Carve Magazine

Winter 2020

After Daniel died, Carlos came to the roadside every day and looked through the grass.

January 15, 2020

Carve Magazine

Winter 2020

Tent People by Kate Arden McMullen

January 15, 2020

Carve Magazine

Winter 2020

We were everybody in the kitchen together.

October 10, 2019

Carve Magazine

Fall 2019, Raymond Carver Contest

Private Lives by April Sopkin

October 10, 2019

Carve Magazine

Fall 2019, Raymond Carver Contest

We invited her into the house because that is what happens when you open the door and see someone you know standing on the porch.

October 10, 2019

Carve Magazine

Fall 2019, Raymond Carver Contest

Gravity House by Carolyn Bishop

October 10, 2019

Carve Magazine

Fall 2019, Raymond Carver Contest

You press your forehead against the kitchen window, trying to see details in your garden, heat presses back like a fever.

October 10, 2019

Carve Magazine

Fall 2019, Raymond Carver Contest

The Enchanted Forest by Brian Crawford

October 10, 2019

Carve Magazine

Fall 2019, Raymond Carver Contest

The foreman had gone into town to spend the night with a stewardess, leaving Roy and Tommy alone at the mountain fire station with a radio and a water tanker they weren’t supposed to drive.

October 10, 2019

Carve Magazine

Fall 2019, Raymond Carver Contest

The Ghost Rider by Erica Plouffe Lazure

October 10, 2019

Carve Magazine

Fall 2019, Raymond Carver Contest

No one outside Nashville had ever heard of Billy Dice’s All-Stars until last night, when our drummer, Marty Marshall, fell through the plate glass window down at Clyde’s Country Corner.

July 7, 2019

Carve Magazine

Summer 2019

The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First by Stephen Hundley

July 7, 2019

Carve Magazine

Summer 2019

The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First by Stephen Hundley

Joanna is an alien; she tells me in the backseat of the Lincoln.

July 7, 2019

Carve Magazine

Summer 2019

Forge the Ring by Jordan Rossen

July 7, 2019

Carve Magazine

Summer 2019

Elliott, my absolute best friend and boyfriend of six years, began cheating on me in November, and for the last five months I’ve kept my knowledge of the affair a secret.

July 7, 2019

Carve Magazine

Summer 2019

Darth Vader and the Lemon by Yuvi Zalkow

July 7, 2019

Carve Magazine

Summer 2019

Darth Vader and the Lemon by Yuvi Zalkow

I move the Darth Vader action figure next to the lemon on the kitchen table where I’m sitting with my ten-year-old stepson.

July 7, 2019

Carve Magazine

Summer 2019

Carousel by Jamie Feldman

July 7, 2019

Carve Magazine

Summer 2019

There were only two reasons a guy like me would come back to his hometown: a wedding or a funeral.

April 6, 2019

Carve Magazine

Spring 2019

The Road Out of Juneau by Caitlin Scarano

April 6, 2019

Carve Magazine

Spring 2019

The Road Out of Juneau by Caitlin Scarano

When Lois calls her mother, her tongue is heavy and tastes bitter, as if she’d been sucking on a handful of pennies.