April 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Spring 2017

Children's Home by William Klein

April 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Spring 2017

Ben’s taking four residents to walk on the loose-dirt path behind the Children’s Home when they spot it: a grey parrot in a skeletal tree, the ribbon of a yellow balloon tied to its feet.

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

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...

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

Carve Magazine

Summer 2016

Cedar Moon by Mary Kate Varnau

July 15, 2016

Carve Magazine

Summer 2016

They didn’t have a honeymoon.

January 15, 2016

Carve Magazine

Winter 2016

Possession by Adrienne Celt

January 15, 2016

Carve Magazine

Winter 2016

Millicent’s husband has gone insane.

October 15, 2014

Carve Magazine

Fall 2014, Raymond Carver Contest

The Snow Children by Wendy Oleson

October 15, 2014

Carve Magazine

Fall 2014, Raymond Carver Contest

Sarah never said it, but she agreed with the other kids that riding on the bus over Meredith Moore’s skull felt like riding over a big rock.

October 15, 2014

Carve Magazine

Fall 2014, Raymond Carver Contest

Martha and Other Anomalies by Kerrin Piché Serna

October 15, 2014

Carve Magazine

Fall 2014, Raymond Carver Contest

Martha and Other Anomalies by Kerrin Piché Serna

The pineapple was flying! It paused at the pinnacle of its arc, weightless, and then began its descent—slow, sinking, faster, faster—finally landing with a thump into the tall grass beside the road.

October 15, 2014

Carve Magazine

Fall 2014, Raymond Carver Contest

Entr'acte by Mark Connelly

October 15, 2014

Carve Magazine

Fall 2014, Raymond Carver Contest

Walking through the courthouse, Newman felt like an alumnus on a campus visit. Both at home and out of place. A collision of past and present.

July 15, 2014

Carve Magazine

Summer 2014

F-Man by Colette Sartor

July 15, 2014

Carve Magazine

Summer 2014

That voice. Gravelly, loud, insistent. “Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you!” yelled over and over outside Mila’s building, six-thirty sharp, mornings and evenings.

July 15, 2014

Carve Magazine

Summer 2014

Journeyers by Keely Bowers

July 15, 2014

Carve Magazine

Summer 2014

Odessa Ross, widow and owner of the Fulton Hideaway Motel, was one of twelve who survived the grocery store massacre in Montgomery, Kansas, that April, and one of seven who escaped to the parking lot uninjured...

April 15, 2014

Carve Magazine

Spring 2014

Missing Teeth by Bryan VanDyke

April 15, 2014

Carve Magazine

Spring 2014

The ashen smell in the air reminded Bernie of trash fires in Cambodia. But then again, everything today reminded him of something else.

September 15, 2013

Carve Magazine

Fall 2013, Raymond Carver Contest

Tu quoque by Jake Andrews

September 15, 2013

Carve Magazine

Fall 2013, Raymond Carver Contest

The first ricochets off the pine tree to his left and rebounds from his jeans, rolling to a stop a few feet away.

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.

December 15, 2008

Carve Magazine

Winter 2008

The Candy House of Roscoe, New York by Meagan Cass

December 15, 2008

Carve Magazine

Winter 2008

The Candy House of Roscoe, New York by Meagan Cass

They woke in the night, in their childhood homes, with a strange, mawkish hunger, a sprain in the chest, a clench of the gut, a small, dull-toothed animal stirring.