Here are Stanchion Magazine's Elegant Variations 2027 Best of the Net Nominees. Enjoy reading these fine poems and works of fiction.POETRYThe American Dreamby Michael R. EvansFrench Pearsby Hanna Karr...

There is a science of small things in tidepools. There is music. Neither explains what started this symphony—the ebb or the flow. By the stony aquarium, I note the rests and the beats while my classma...

There is a science of small things in tidepools. There is music. Neither explains what started this symphony—the ebb or the flow. By the stony aquarium, I note the rests and the beats while my classma...

Alt: Relaxing Ocean Waves

Today, Every Day, Yesterday, Tomorrowby Cuyler Meade Today, 4, my daughter is humming along too loudly to her bedtime song. “Hush, sweety,” I say. “It's time for night-night. You need to sleep, baby.”...

is burning down where you guided me one night beneath the canopy of maples and spruces on a study break dare. The popular one and the loner....

The American Dreamby Michael R. EvansYou won’t expect to rob anyone but, without citizenship and fired from selling funeralplots on commission, you’ll live on gameshow seat-filler gigs and generous ne...

By Corrie Haldane

Wild Greens 5, no. 11 (September 2025) Time Welcome to the September 2025 issue of Wild Greens

Sharing the Pool Sweltering, I sit under a mulberry, listening to the stream’s crisp chorus burble into emerald pools, the largest spanned by a service road bridge where two brown cubs emerge…