Issue 20

What is Held Within a Scene (A Short Story in Play Form) Dra­mat­ic Works By Juliean­na Black­well trigger warning: gun vio­lence Char­ac­ter List JENNIFER WESTERLY: 37 years old. She is a brunette, thin, short. She is dressed in old jogging shorts, a non­de­script pro­mo­tion­al T‑shirt under a bulky…

Smoke Out of the Jar Cre­ative Non-Fiction By Nuala O’Connor           In my child­hood home, dif­fi­cult things were stored like smoke in a tight- lidded jar. Hurts, ills, and prob­lems were a visible miasma through the glass, but they would sit in…

Sept/ember Poetry By Court Ludwick Morning of the twen­ti­eth, there is a uni­verse on my wall. Just kidding it is only a burning square of light. Just kidding it is not quite burning. In the square, there are shadows of swaying leaves. Just kidding I…

The Onion Fiction By Kevin Broc­coli The may­on­naise has not been made. As the onion con­tem­plates how long it will be until someone notices that the may­on­naise has not been made, it sees Chef Doyle trying not to cry. Chef Doyle does not cry at work. In…

The Winter 2024 (#20) edition markes our tenth anniver­sary and con­tin­ues a legacy of dis­cov­er­ing and encour­ag­ing new and diverse voices. Forty con­trib­u­tors came togeth­er to make this one of our most pow­er­ful issues yet. Find Stonecoast Review Issue 20 at local inde­pen­dent book­seller Kelly’s Books…