Issue 4 - Third Point Press

Lesson Plans / The Rain Never Stopped

By Jessie Knoles lesson plans in fifth grade we dissected a chicken leg our science teacher bought at a

Talisman

By claire hopple I followed someone. This person, Claudia, I knew her a long time ago. I had never followed

A Burning Girl

By Cathy Ulrich There was one day at school that one of the girls started on fire. She was eating

How to Tame an Angel

By meghan mcclure Take your bones to bed again, and then again. Rub yourself down with ash and wine worked

Honda CB-750

By julie paul At the crossroads of the crotch begins the vulval buzz: ten thousand bees, lips on a trumpet.

The Moon Instead

by kiley reid I told my mother I was going on a mission trip but I went to the moon

Nonsequential

(after Warsan Shire) by theo legro The year death began to follow me in and out of every door. The

The Last Fragile Thing

By Erin Calabria I knew he was going to leave even before that winter, the air stitched with sleet while

The Paralyzer

By bud smith The night they took his father off life support, we scaled the fence and went to

Funny How Tender Can Mean Two Things

by anna lea jancewicz Lydia hadn’t realized Paul’s superiority to Kurt all at once. It hadn’t been swift like food

It Felt Like Love

By Brian Ellis Shout-out to when you were 22 and living on a saggy, semi-inflated mattress on the floor of

Speculation On What Judas Bought With The Blood Money

by julianne neely fish to eat sheep a secret perhaps greatest one yet immortality surely worth more than mansion on

Heartbreaker

by Devin Kelly The drums on Call Me on Your Way Back Home, I said. Yeah, Bunny said. They don’t

Welcome Center

By Renoir gaither near the glass giraffes and Milk Duds behind jars of clover jelly just as the pinball machines

There are Tamales Here

(after Jamaal May) by sara borjas There are tamales here so many tamales here is what I am trying to

Little Knives

by cassandra de alba Love finds you on a beach with dirty hair. Love finds you breathless, spluttering and uncertain,

Editor’s Note, Issue #4

This issue builds on the work of all the others that were published before it. The poems and stories are