Jon Negroni - Cetera Magazine

literary fiction

What We Were Good At

They were perfect for each other until they decided to be together.

poetry

Cetera #2 – The Body Keeps the Score

A digital issue gets built in a strange way. First it exists as a submission call. Then it becomes a flood of attachments, cover letters, half-remembered lines, notes in the margins, long email threads about sequencing, and the gradual realization that certain poems have started following you around. They

romance fiction

Texts After 3

Two insomniacs grow closer one 3am text at a time, while the wrong relationship slowly makes the right one impossible to ignore.

Literary Fiction,

Memory With a View

A man returns to his mother’s apartment to sell it. In a locked drawer, he finds what he could never say out loud.

literary fantasy

Doors that Open on Leap Days

Every four years, on February 29, the bar is open.

literary fiction

Three Days on the Water

Gustavo’s stomach tightened. He had been on rougher seas. This was nothing.

Cetera Poetry #1 – The Things That Survive Us

Every poem in this issue arrives carrying its own weather. Some carry the hush of a kitchen after midnight, or the shape of a shoreline where the water keeps its counsel. Some move through childhood terrain half-remembered and half-invented, through fields that no longer exist except in the

Romantic Fantasy

The Pomegranate Man

The pomegranate split in his hands—reluctantly, then all at once—and Riam set half of it on the flat rock where the tide would find it by morning. The seeds shone like wet garnets in the last grey light. Forty years he had done this. Forty winters watching the