Cascadia Magazine

In two flash fiction pieces by Ruth Joffre, the Seattle author explores the fears and anxieties surrounding raising children–and the lies and narratives we spin out to cope with introducing them to a complicated world. Accompanying artwork by Seattle artist and illustrator Clare Johnson. Read more

“How to explain the thought of someone not wanting you anymore? How to describe someone erasing you with the same pencil that drew you, leaving only your paws?” Seattle-based writer Corinne Manning’s slyly funny work of fiction observes the disorientation and emotional chaos that follows a difficult breakup. Read more

In this short story by Matt Briggs, a man living in his Honda Accord appears outside the home of Maureen Hough, a teenager whose father works a blue-collar job and pays a mortgage on a home not far from Pacific Highway South. A timely story as Seattle faces a critical housing crisis it can’t ignore. Read more

“My mother never really read my sister’s diary – she only skimmed it, so that she got names and dates wrong. I know. Because I read it thoroughly, even made edits occasionally, inserting commas in my sister’s life.” New short fiction by Seattle-based writer Donna Miscolta. Read more

A few years ago, a news story made the rounds about how scientists had discovered that reading fiction makes you more empathetic. And in fact, those lab technicians in white coats holding clipboards discovered it was literary fiction that made you especially sympathetic to the lives of others. You can’t… Read more