Crow & Cross Keys is a new, online literary journal that plucks fiction and poetry from skeletal trees and gives it a place to take root.
Send us your skeleton keys, your tar-black feathers, send us your calcified forests and ramshackle castles. Take us somewhere beautiful and dark and strange.
Latest
First Blood—Lyndsey Croal
I reach under the sink and grab the bucket and rubber gloves, still slightly bloodstained from last month. El appears behind me. ‘Gutters clogged again?’ I look up at her and nod. ‘Have you seen the goggles?’ I don’t want to…
Continue readingFeatured Flash
Bones of Time—Taylor Rae
The mountain is as cold and grey as your arms. I carry your coyote-gnawed vertebra. It pulses in my pocket, an ossified heartbeat. The wind kisses my neck, and I…
Keep reading
You Keep Yourself Alive on the Moon—Jacqueline Xiong
You keep yourself alive on the moon by weaving cloaks of hare fur. When your hare was alive, it bounced from side to side at your feet, and you would…
Keep readingFeatured Poetry
The Hike that Breeds Desire—Alba Sarria
This one opens in Green. His feet are hooved, clovered in dark curling Fur. There is a fragrance in the air you do not know, or do not want to…
Keep reading
A Swarm Unto Herself—Barlow Adams
I know a woman with a beehive for a head, big as the pyramids, a basket woven by slave hands, fit for a queen, too small for a princess, labyrinthine…
Keep readingFeatured Stories
Piecemeal—Sebastian Murdoch
Eudora Crosby would have sworn, on pain of death, that they did what they did to that Guerra girl in the most humane way possible. As far as she was…
Keep reading
Honey Trap—Maddie Bowen-Smyth
“You’ll adore the distillery, my darling,” Magnus promises, and Catalina knows better than to trust the pretty words of lovesick, stupid boys. (Should know better, anyway. Yet here she is.)…
Keep readingWould you like to see your work featured among our plume of feathers? Head over to our submission page, we would love to read your words.
If you like what you see, pop us a tweet at @crowkeys or tag us on instagram at @crowcrosskeys. We want to hear from you!
Crow & Cross Keys 