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Workplace: Wounds and Woes ’24

Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson

Managing Editor: Karris Rae

Assistant Editors: Taryn White, Meilyn Woods

Esther Courville, “Life Sentence,” photograph

Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson

Letter from the Guest Editor by Karris Rae

Prose

Undercover Boss” by Carly Diaz

The Company Man by James Gianetti

DelSanto’s Beach by Joe Kapitan

As Per Usual by Susan Isla Tepper

Slingshot Factory by Andrew Zornoza

Poetry

From the Back of the Room by Mary Buchinger

Why Hawks Make Bad Bosses by Jean Janicke

The Building Manager by Lora Keller

My Brief Life as a Dean by Jennifer Lagier

Wrong Song by Devon Neal

Work Week by Benjamin Niespodziany

Emails I Can’t Send” by McNeese’s Undergraduate Fiction Workshop, Fall 2024

Esther Courville is a southwest Louisiana native who explores themes of abjection and nostalgia in her photography and poetry. She is also a vocalist, musician, and English instructor at Lamar University. She received an MA in literature from McNeese State University in 2023. Her research interests include linguistics, postmodernism, and English pedagogy. 

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