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Volume 15

Marcia Aldrich

In My Head: Tinnitus Origin From the Latin tinnire, “to ring or tinkle like a bell.” Definition The perception of noise or ringing in the ears. Paradox Nothing outside of...

Kimberly Nunes

Love in an Airport The cancerous gland. Gone now. In the restroom at LAX, I take my tight purple panties off and hand them to my husband in the...

Bethany Jarmul

Bethany Jarmul (Twitter:@BethanyJarmul) is a writer, editor, and artist. Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and been nominated for Best of the...

W. Todd Kaneko

Side Quests You travel alone across this emaciated America, this atom-scorched landscape where the cattle are radiation-burned, where the deer wander with both heads alert...

Rebecca Brock

To My Father Whose Pitch Has Always Been About Surviving Years and years you triedto teach me.Now, I call hometo remind you of fragility—as if...

Lee Ann Roripaugh

Notes on Dissociation The summer comes unbuttoned and your mind slips free of its body to float up and nudge the corner of the ceiling...

Maureen Stanton

A Long Way to Tipperary Growing up with six siblings, I never had much time alone with my father, especially after my parents divorced when...

Matthew Lippman

Everyone Listened to Prince For the longest time I tried to see joy in the robin’s egg or purple cloud at dawn.The sound of a...

Sarah Beth Childers

Candy Crane My brother Joshua lost interest in Walmart's toy crane at eight, shortly after he gained enough hand-eye coordination to manipulate the metal claw....

Kandala Singh

Breathless (Delhi, April-May 2021) My city’s rivers have dried, our fish choked. Here, a funeral burning. The city gasps for air. No ventilators, sorry. Die outside hospitals, choking for breath....

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