FICTION | Conversation with Past, Present, and Future

You wonder, will I ever hit the ground, feel the sensation of solidity? Know—perhaps finally—that there is some kind of end to it all?

Wood Reede

Dec 23, 2020
3 min

FLASH FICTION | A Good Idea

Psychotherapy seems like a good idea until you actually do it.

NONFICTION | The Great American Land Gluttony

C.D. Frelinghuysen

Nov 27, 2020
12 min

NONFICTION | The Great American Land Gluttony

There will be no wonder, only mileage. And in a thousand years, we will leave Mars a square ruin, too.

Jiaming Tang

Nov 25, 2020
4 min

FLASH FICTION | Yang Zhu's Letters

A third picture shows her standing at a church. She wears a dress that’s too big for her, and lipstick the color of raw meat.

Alisha Vayette

Oct 31, 2020
14 min

FICTION | Hexenbrenner

I became a fake witch for survival reasons.

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New Mexico State University

English Department

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Las Cruces, NM 88001

Puerto del Sol

Weirding it up since 1960.

Puerto del Sol is funded by New Mexico State University and the Mercedes Delos Jacobs Fund, and designed and operated by the students of the MFA in Creative Writing program.