Issue 4
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
Read more.Talisman
By claire hopple I followed someone. This person, Claudia, I knew her a long time ago. I had never followed
Read more.A Burning Girl
By Cathy Ulrich There was one day at school that one of the girls started on fire. She was eating
Read more.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
Read more.Honda CB-750
By julie paul At the crossroads of the crotch begins the vulval buzz: ten thousand bees, lips on a trumpet.
Read more.The Moon Instead
by kiley reid I told my mother I was going on a mission trip but I went to the moon
Read more.Nonsequential
(after Warsan Shire) by theo legro The year death began to follow me in and out of every door. The
Read more.The Last Fragile Thing
By Erin Calabria I knew he was going to leave even before that winter, the air stitched with sleet while
Read more.The Paralyzer
By bud smith The night they took his father off life support, we scaled the fence and went to
Read more.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
Read more.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
Read more.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
Read more.Heartbreaker
by Devin Kelly The drums on Call Me on Your Way Back Home, I said. Yeah, Bunny said. They don’t
Read more.Welcome Center
By Renoir gaither near the glass giraffes and Milk Duds behind jars of clover jelly just as the pinball machines
Read more.There are Tamales Here
(after Jamaal May) by sara borjas There are tamales here so many tamales here is what I am trying to
Read more.Little Knives
by cassandra de alba Love finds you on a beach with dirty hair. Love finds you breathless, spluttering and uncertain,
Read more.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
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