The Diamond Line

The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Literary Magazine

“The Shoe Box” by Elise Lusk

“Holy shit.” I whip my head in the direction of the shout and see my Grandma on all fours, a puff of grey barely poking out from under the yellow sun hat she’s sporting. Her face, covered in two inches of soot, gives her raisin skin an airbrushed look. From a distance...

“Firehouse Red” by Lauren Dial

Its umbilical cord was still attached. Iron, the smell of red, reeked off of it as drops of blood splattered onto the tiles. Charlie rushed the baby inside. He shouted for someone to get a doctor and began pulling off taffy wrappers, cigarette buds, and other trash...