An Exercise in Staring at the Ceiling and Contemplating Divorce P.L. Sanchez __________ Focus on the fan. Watch the blades, spinning in circles. They want us to believe they’re an army. Smart. We know it’s a covert operation, a five-blade job. Those blades can spin, yes, they can. Focus on…
Read MoreJen Karetnick __________ Marching Band Perp Walk You never forget the way you’re taught to tread: Gaze straight ahead. Limbs on alert. Feet barely lifted, a watery shuffle. Toe to heel, toe to heel, a needle through the arch, threading the seams of the path in front of you like…
Read MoreWilliam Brown __________ Monarchs I wanted to dust their beating wings, douse them in alcohol, press into paper, onto toothpicks stabbed in foam. But when I arrive, plastic bag tied to a stick, they ignite the hush of alfalfa, pillage the flower’s throats like boys back home who suck the…
Read MoreCall the Carmelites Jane V. Blunschi __________ I started calling the Carmelite monastery with prayer requests when I was twenty-four years old. I knew about the nuns because the woman I was involved with advised me to call them when I was fearful, and I was fearful most of the…
Read MoreBoudin 2019: Winter Edition Fiction “My Plastic Dreams” by Mark Budman “A Bad Seed” by A.I. Chow “A Few Things Before Coffee” by Nicholas John-Francis Claro “No Sweeter Fat” by Jess E. Jelsma “Girl Who Came Guns aBlazin’” by Kennedy Dawn Stearns Poetry “For A Moment” & “The Woman in…
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