Refractions

-2020-
The Collective
​Stories and Propagation of
 Showcased Writers, Artists & Photographers
Cal Freeman
Genre: Nonfiction
February 17th, 2020

Orbital Theory

​She told me the boy was coming home, from Pittsburgh of all places, and it wasn’t that I’d forgotten that the boy had moved there, but that boys are always coming home according to classical and biblical precedent (Telemachus, The Prodigal Son), a boy is always staying or coming home or temporarily leaving home in the fashion of the lengthy return.
Bob Chikos
Genre: Nonfiction
February 17th, 2020

The Neighbors

After Aileen and I married, we bought a tiny condo on the third floor of an aging building – the only thing we could afford on our non-profit and childcare salaries. During the 13 years we – and eventually our baby – were there, the apartment across the hall hosted a carousel of neighbors: the immigrants from Poland who left when the wife became homesick, the young couple who moved away as soon as they could afford a house, the man who kept to himself, then disappeared one night, leaving a steady stream of creditors knocking on our door asking if we knew what happened to him.
     And then there was Josh.
Cheryl Ferguson Bernini
Genre: Fiction
February 10th, 2020

The House on Hickory Hill

As the children grew to adulthood, they withdrew from my walls and the security I afforded them from when they were first introduced to me. The couple eventually aged to when they became no more. I live on, but I have become lifeless. There is no one that inhabits me now.
FreetheDust
Genre: Photography
February 10th, 2020
Alissa Hull
Genre: Poetry
​February 1st, 2020

Home Town


​I take sleeping pills,
             drown you out,
and lie about where I’m from.
Jerome Berglund
Genre: Photography
​February 1st, 2020

Home I - III
Danielle O'Hanlon
Genre: Art
Februrary 1st, 2020 

Warm Winter