Boudin Issues – Page 21 – The McNeese Review

Blue Laws

Blue Laws Amy Barnes __________ The milk that Ellie still expresses, ounce by precious ounce – is so translucent that it’s almost Delft or sky azure, a faint hint of color glowing like radioactive, futile tactile milk, the liquid of a failed, but obedient woman – the kind that observes…

The Wasteland

The Wasteland Prosper C. Ìféányí __________ And then Astrid, after being asked by his children for the umpteenth time what fate was, sculpted an imaginary face from the innermost thickness of a smoke rising skywards from the great wasteland, and said: there is life, and then there is death, what happens…

Plotting

Plotting Grant Faulkner __________ A wise writer once said that “the king died, and then the queen died,” is a story, but that “the king died, and then the queen died of grief,” now that was a plot, except the king died of a heart attack while in amorous congress…

Letter from the Guest Editor

Letter from the Guest Editor Taylor Mahone __________ Somehow, it’s summer again. Last summer, I thought about moments and their endings all the time. Where coasts dip off to, the tip top of the peaked heights of the dunes, the precise moment when the slow, melty burn of the sunset…

One-Sentence Stories, Jun ’24

One-Sentence Stories: Summer I, 2024 Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson Managing Editor: Abbie Skinner Guest Editor: Taylor Mahone Assistant Editors: Karris Rae, Aiman Tariq, Taryn White, Meilyn Woods Editorial Assistants: Mia Bonds, Alexandria Knight Victoria de Benedicty, UNTITLED Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson Letter from the Guest Editor…

Letter from the Editor

One-Sentence Stories Letter from the Editor Vallie Lynn Watson __________ First year: fabulous! __________ To learn more about submitting your work to Boudin or applying to McNeese State University’s Creative Writing MFA program, please visit Submissions for details.

Michael Robins

Michael Robins Michael Robins is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Bright Invisible (Saturnalia Books, 2022). His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, The Common, New England Review, and Poetry magazine. He lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where he teaches in the MFA program at McNeese State University. Visit…

Gwenyth Wheat

Gwenyth Wheat Gwenyth Wheat is a MFA/MA candidate at McNeese State University. She is the Assistant Poetry Editor for the McNeese Review and a writing tutor for MSU. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Great…

Cemetery One Nighter

Cemetery One Nighter Paul Corman-Roberts __________ It isn’t the name she told you, the name that isn’t her real name but the name they told your friend, heartbroken back in the pizza joint you hit up where you first squeezed her thigh under the table out of your friend’s sight, neither of you knowing she was death, happy to clasp your fingers…

The Music Carries Me Like The Wind Carries My Voice

The Music Carries Me Like The Wind Carries My Voice Vallie McGallion, High School Contest Winner __________ As if the sunlight, warm on my skin Seeped below, trickled within I feel the melody within me, visceral Metaphorical, and all the while, literal The beach’s breeze, blowing in my hair Carries…