Keep Times Good (Or the League to Save the Good Times) Joe Farley __________ Rex liked to have a good time. Rex liked to ensure everyone else was having a good time. Rex liked to keep times good. He played the towns centennial party. He played the townie bars, the…
Read MoreThe Boyfriend Ben Selesnick __________ The dining room was one of the larger rooms in Noah’s Atlantic-facing colonial. It had a vaulted ceiling, a glassed-encased display at one end of the cedar-cut table that held a collection of plaques and trophies he’d accrued over the past decade working as the…
Read MoreHIGHWAY 111 Mathieu Cailler __________ Even at 11:59 p.m., the heat still owned Palm Springs. Emile’s shift had started a couple of hours earlier, and he sat in his taxicab, munching on some stale donut holes, waiting for dispatch to inform him of his next pick-up. He tinkered with…
Read MoreFour Fables by Alex Wells Shapiro An Ekphrastic Fable about Construction Workers’ Breakless 8 Hour Effort to Remove a Racist Owner For Alaina Getzenberg, Charlotte Observer Reporter Strapped under the pits, bronzed Jerry Richardson flies away, sloppily offering a football by the nose to passerbys pausing at the spectacle like…
Read MoreA Note from the Editor The launch of this Boudin mini-issue focusing on football was supposed to coincide with the start of football season. That was the plan when I conceived of the mini-issue at last year’s AWP conference in San Antonio (way back in the early days of the…
Read MoreChristina Quintana (CQ) is a New York-based writer with Cuban and Louisiana roots. She is the author of the full-length play Scissoring (Dramatists Play Service) and The Heart Wants, a chapbook of poetry (Finishing Line Press). Her work has appeared in P.S. I Love You, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, PulpMag, and…
Read MoreWinter with Periwinkle by Redfern Boyd Summer gets all the glory. People talk about their lives changing during the hot months. Our season was winter, especially the limbo between Christmas and New Year’s. That time belonged to us, me and Periwinkle, and to our families, who lived the other eleven…
Read MoreJeffrey Alfier’s most recent book is Gone This Long: Southern Poems. The Shadow Field, another collection, is forthcoming from Louisiana Literature Press. His publication credits include The Carolina Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Midwest Quarterly, Permafrost, and Southern Poetry Review. He is co-editor of Blue Horse Press and San Pedro River Review.
Read MoreV.C. McCabe is an Appalachian poet, the author of Give the Bard a Tetanus Shot (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2019), a Contributing Editor of Barren Magazine, and Social Media Manager of Animal Heart Press. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and featured in exhibits and journals worldwide, including…
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