Volume no. 8, Issue 2
Fiction
Thaddeus Rutkowski, “Safe Colors”
“I had a little bird
And its name was Enza.
I opened the window
And in-flew-Enza.”
“I had hoped that once Liz tasted the strawberry rhubarb pie, she would agree to the abortion.”
Jhon Sánchez, “The Fragant Flavor of The Strawberry Rhubarb Pie”
Visual Arts
Joseph Ernst, “Nothing in the News”
Sarah E. Swist & Kevin R. Mercer, “Bubblegum & Whiskey”
Poetry
“I believe the fictions
between the words where people go missing”
“going to legacy a river
in spring”
Matthew Cooperman, “A River in Spring”
“I have a right to know the eyes of the face of the voice singing from the windmill in the sky.”
Nicolas Alti, “There They Were in a Pile, A Pile of Little Arms”
Translation
مرتضى كزار, لا تسافر مع الفيل إلى شيكاغو
Katharine Halls, “Don’t Put Your Elephant in Your Luggage”
Pina Piccolo, “MEDITERRANEO 2011: TERZO CAPO D’ACCUSA” & 1 more
Don Stang, “MEDITERRANEAN 2011: THIRD ARTICLE OF THE INDICTMENT” & 1 more
Interviews
Flash
“My mother is giving me ten thousand dollars to get a nose job.”
Marina Rubin, “You Can Live With This Nose”
“Overbright, everything. Overfull. It’s coming. He’s coming.”
Temim Fruchter, “Underneath It”
“The top of your skull is that many inches closer to God”
Nonfiction
Dean Liao, “Nocturne Op. 12 No. 20”
“That our stories would never end.”
Meghan Gilligan, “Different Music in the Same Car”
“We have sold awareness to the world and left none for ourselves.”
Azima Melita Kolin, “Fragments of Goa”
Reviews
Josephine Yu, “Prayer Book of the Anxious”
Alyse Knorr, “Mega-City Redux”
“The poems speak to each other through mantras of inertial forces and the world’s spindle.”
Michael Shou-Yung Shum, “Queen of Spades”