The Swim
by: Chris Cooper “Is there anything more depressing than knowing you’re worth more dead than alive?”A short story where everything…
life
Best of ATM 2018, Nonfiction
As 2018 comes to its close, Across the Margin takes a look back at some of its most treasured…
The Loss of Waiting
by: Katherine Binford ((Header art by Mark Manson.)) “I was always surprised by the photos I had taken, photos…
Grandpa
by: T.E. Cowell “For all he knows he’ll never die. That’s exactly how I felt when I was his…
Seclusion
by: Patrick McQueen “What happened next transformed this random moment into a scene I would never forget.” A short story…
Flesh Colored Shell
by: Allison Cripe A story where a shell is far more than just a shell, and a significance of…
Skipping Stones
by: Tyler Womack “I’m putting you in the story only so you’ll feel the stakes the way I do….
Dead Again
by Frederick Foote A work of science fiction that imagines a vicious loop of life and death for a soldier,…
Hollow Bodies
by: Lucy Gardner ((Header art by Kim Joon.)) “I imagine their bodies are hollow like the look in their…
Kauaian Karma
by: Terry Martin “What difference could my desire to cling to life possibly make to the ocean?” A story…
Beautiful Morning
by: John S Alty A life come full circle, a love enduring, brought forth in a mere two hundred and…
Yale
by: Frederick Foote ((Header art entitled “Pass Through Generations, 1998 by Lonnie Holley.)) “He has to find his own…