Mona Houghton
Mona Houghton has published stories in Carolina Quarterly, Crosscurrents, Bluff City, West Branch, Oracle, Livingston Press’ Tarts 2, Harpur Palate, and Corridors. She has won the John Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction for her story “A Brother, Some Sex, and an Optic Nerve,” and first place in the Inconundrum Press “Melville Novella” contest. Mona taught writing at California State University Northridge and is currently working on her second book.
Gifts
Jacqui teaches AP English at a Catholic school and her curriculum is more radical than Father Glenn likes. She loses her hat—a precious gift from Aunt Gwen—on the day Joseph brilliantly elucidates Thoreau. The hat is gone but Joseph’s eyes are brimming.
Short Story
Issue 6, October 2017
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The Game
Short Story
Issue 4, August 2017
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Albert Should Think
Short Story
Issue 2, June 2017
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Mona Houghton
Mona Houghton has published stories in Carolina Quarterly, Crosscurrents, Bluff City, West Branch, Oracle, Livingston Press’ Tarts 2, Harpur Palate, and Corridors. She has won the John Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction for her story “A Brother, Some Sex, and an Optic Nerve,” and first place in the Inconundrum Press “Melville Novella” contest. Mona taught writing at California State University Northridge and is currently working on her second book.
Gifts
Jacqui teaches AP English at a Catholic school and her curriculum is more radical than Father Glenn likes. She loses her hat—a precious gift from Aunt Gwen—on the day Joseph brilliantly elucidates Thoreau. The hat is gone but Joseph’s eyes are brimming.
Short Story
Issue 6, October 2017
Issues Archive
The Game
Short Story
Issue 4, August 2017
Issues Archive
Albert Should Think
Short Story
Issue 2, June 2017
Issues Archive