Skip to main content
Gulf Coast Literary Journal logo
  • Donate
  • Subscribe
  • Gulf Coast Gala
  • Search
Main menu
  • Print
  • |
  • Online
    • Poetry
    • Fiction
    • Non-Fiction
    • Reviews and Interviews
    • Online Exclusives
  • |
  • Contests
    • Gulf Coast Prize
    • Prize in Translation
    • The Barthelme Prize
    • The Beauchamp Prize
  • |
  • About
    • About Us
    • Submit
    • Contact
    • Events

Godsend

Facebook X (formerly Twitter) BlueSky LinkedIn Email Print

Other items that may interest you

Purple Glue Sticks

Ambrosia

goodbye, world

Three Stories

This story appears in
29.1 - Winter/Spring 2017

BUY THE PRINT ISSUE

Also in this issue
Love Poem: Chimera
I thought myself lion and serpent. Thought/ myself body enough for two, for we./ Found comfort in never being lonely...
Writing Whatever Presents Itself: a Q&A with Phillip Lopate
Author of more than a dozen books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, Phillip Lopate currently teaches at Columbia University, where he directs the graduate program in nonfiction. In the early …
Triggernometry
For/ you, the/ first triangle:/ Father and Son and/ Holy Ghost, and you hear/ from everybody Southern fried in/ your life the devil be a master mimic--
Lily-White-Secretion-Maker
Some say the jaw is the strongest muscle--/ Book of World Records, Library of Congress--/ but my TMJ begs to differ...
Motion, Moved
I fold into the cold croissant of bed./ When he leaves I flutter open like a valve./ His wardrobe, my hangers, our chest/ of drawers. Possession tossed like a rule...

Contact us

4800 Calhoun Road
Houston, TX 77204-3013
Phone: 713-743-3223

Links

  • About us
    How to submit work
    About our prizes
    How to subscribe
    How to support GCLJ

Keep in touch!

Sign up for all our latest news:

© 2026 Gulf Coast Literary Journal Powered by Creative Circle Media Solutions