What the Husband Keeps by Todd Dillard from Issue 20 of Stanchion Magazine There was that time you went blind driving on 85.  I grabbed the wheel, we coasted down the offramp  to one of those anonymous office centers—it was  Saturday, so it was just us and the blackness  that swallowed your vision. "What's happening?" I asked.  But you said to wait. You described stars bursting,  light crumbling the dark's edges. And just as suddenly  you could see again. I asked if I should drive but you...

Hallelujah Has Too Many Verses for Karaoke by Jo Gatford from Stanchion Magazine Issue 20 The street evangelist is plugged into a three-foot-tall karaoke speaker on a little wheelie trolley and your first thought is how the hell he got it on the bus—or if he drove here, where the hell he managed to park because you’ve been driving squares around the second-most expensive zone for twenty minutes trying to find a spot which means you had to powerwalk for another fifteen and now you're late for...

This year's Pushcart Prize nominations come from two Stanchion Books chapbooks-the title story of Hannah Grieco's debut fiction collection, First Kicking, Then Not , and the final piece in Kristen Zory King's debut, Ladies, Ladies, Ladies -as well as Issues 19 and 20 of Stanchion Magazine. "The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America - including Highest Honors from the American Academy of Arts and...