Poetry, CNF, and Graphic Essays.

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issue 8.1

Riley Passmore

Type One I was sixteen when I told my mother I didn’t want to die. I don’t remember much of that time, those two weeks where...

Jill McCabe Johnson

Borderlines I woke lying on my side, half-submerged in water between the mattress and the frame. The water made a borderline across my chest and...

Zoë Bossiere

American Spirits If I die tomorrow, I want it told that I once baited the ghostly woman in my house with ladyfingers made by hand....

Jill Talbot

Drown I don’t remember the name of that liquor store in Wichita, the one I drove to every few days. I do remember the asphalt...

Jennifer Gravley

Slice after Slice A month before my mother will never eat again, she has the surgery—the cancer sliced off her tongue, slice after slice, until...

Brian Baumgart

49th Mailing to Colin Firth – A Sestina You don’t know me, Colin,but someone close, a secretand distant friend, you could say,moved me, gave a...

Natalie Easton

Awkward Phase Starring David TennantAt fifteen my sister shored up the walls of her roomwith five flavors of glossy boy-band grin &I observed her...

Paulette Beete

Fan Letter                        for Christian KaneThe Spanish say “I have hunger,” and yes, I carry hunger around like a Chihuahua in a designer purse, like...

Michelle Bonczek Evory

I Dreamed of You Again, Jon Stewart, your arms spiraling me away from a life of student loans and waiting tables, canned tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches,...

Gail Griffin

The Question of Need “Does the world really need another picture of me?” Johnny Depp You fill the doorway like a revelation, arms up, hands on either jamb,...

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