Boudin Issues – Page 25 – The McNeese Review

Taryn White

Taryn White is currently an MFA candidate at McNeese State University, where she earned her BA in comparative literature and her MA in literature. Her home is in Southwest Louisiana, but she loves to travel and attend concerts often. She is particularly interested in comparative literature, and her research often…

Love Teeth & Putrefaction

Love Teeth & Putrefaction Kate Wright __________ LOVE TEETH In some Korean traditions, wisdom teeth are called “Love Teeth” because they come during adolescence and hurt like a first love. They come, as if out of nowhere, edging their way into your life slowly. First, a tingle, a hum, a…

The Teeth

The Teeth Stephanie Hayes __________ Brianna left the baby shower clenching her jaw. She couldn’t believe all those stupid bitches couldn’t figure out the goddamn yarn game. How hard was it? You look at the pregnant lady, try to figure out how disgustingly fat she had gotten because she let…

Patrona

Patrona William Hawkins __________ There are small villages in the Italian countryside where the fairy is a saint — a young woman in a roughspun habit who sneaks into the bedrooms of all the baptized boys and girls with a loose tooth in their mouths. Those visited say the saint…

Post Extraction

Post Extraction Juleigh Howard-Hobson __________ It’s not simply the matter of the tooth coming out. There’s the gap, the open gum, the hole where there used to be a wall of solid teeth. You’ll never eat food again the same way, there will always be the blank space that no…

2.1.2.3

2.1.2.3 Isaac Ferber __________ A jar of teeth, now that’s nothing to smile at. Dentin is brown, you know? The old medical school used to be by the zoo. Now they’re beige apartments, and certainly someone lives in the former morgue. I bet their fridge stays cold. When I was…

Karris Rae

Karris Rae Karris Rae is a fiction MFA/MA candidate at McNeese State University. She is also a fiction editor for The McNeese Review and managing editor of Boudin. Her chapbook, We Obedient Children, won the 2024 Etchings Press Chapbook Contest in prose. Her short work has recently appeared or is…

Tooth Appointment

Tooth Appointment Ben Larned __________ You don’t remember your last visit to the dentist. It’s been two years, maybe three. All the way here your gums itch. The waiting room has a sickly hue, a chemical smell that reminds you of metal scraping and drills whirring. If it weren’t for…

Eviction Notice from the Tooth Fairy & red is a spectrum

Eviction Notice from the Tooth Fairy & red is a spectrum Jaden Fong __________ EVICTION NOTICE FROM THE TOOTH FAIRY I fear that I have offended my teeth. They are as loose in my gums, bucking broncos in a gingivae stadium, but please, do not abduct them yet– these teeth…

jesus lost his milk teeth & he looked so much like his father

jesus lost his milk teeth & he looked so much like his father Quinton Okoro __________ JESUS LOST HIS MILK TEETH all at once. he placed them, still warm, pulp still clinging to crown, into his mother’s hand. she bent over him, her palm flattened with expectation. these will make…