We have been angels sold in the marketplace, bouncing light and metal edges, cheap pretty talismans of unfortunate saints. We have been anointed. We have been tin beaten into flimsy shields. We have been thirty sweeps of the second hand, time enough to turn away. Close the door. Turn out the lights. Go home […]
Scott Young
Scott V. Young is an editor, farmer, actor, and former high school English teacher living in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. He received an MFA in writing from Pacific University in 2012, and has been published in Ink and Poetry Now magazines, and in Yuba Flows, from Hip Pocket Press. He has won awards from Manzanita Writers Press. He is currently at work on a novel.
Raw, Bright, Strange, New
A massive clap of thunder shook the house, woke us all up at around 3am, loud enough I got out of bed to see if lightning had hit a nearby tree. Two hours later, for the first time, I heard the Hi-Lo siren, a slowed down version of the traditional European siren: high […]
A Fine and Private Place
New Year’s Day, 2021. Clean air pushes the cold through my hair. A big grey sky opens above, spilling winter light. It is this exact light New Year’s is always meant to have. We head south, my dogs and I, skirting the melted wreckage of our metal barn, passing through our burned orchard […]