The Bigger the Cage the Larger the Lizard Will Get Tiff Holland __________ 1. She comes home to find the cop running his new jean jacket through the gravel and oil in the driveway. He is trying to make it look weathered. He has already sewn Harley Davidson patches on…
Read MoreThe Hologram of the Cat Meg Pokrass __________ Today, Muffin barks at the front door for an hour. She nips at our ankles, though not in a painful way. Not in a way that means, ANIMAL ALERT. What is it, girl? we say. Maybe it’s the hologram of the cat,…
Read MoreSeconds Nicole Monoghan __________ Gramps would narrate what he thought the dog was thinking based on her facial expressions and body language. She sat tall on a loveseat, her long face blank. “I’m over this,” Gramps flatly declared, as the voice of Ruby’s thoughts. I laughed. Ruby got up in…
Read MoreHowling at Osito Dawn Sperber __________ When I howl like a wolf, Osito sits before me like an attentive philosophy student. I think I gain a lot of clout in his eyes. He barks back, then rounds out his vowels like mine, and he gets so excited when he gets…
Read MoreLetter from the Editor Vallie Lynn Watson __________ This two-part issue was a bear (animal pun intended), and wouldn’t be possible without contest judge Ken Foster and Boudin‘s managing editor, Abbie Skinner. Abbie read all contest entries, blind, selected both the top ten, and then the top five, which we sent…
Read MoreDigby Beaumont is an award-winning artist. His artwork has been published extensively in collaboration with writers of fiction, poetry and music. He works on portraits, figures, still lifes, landscapes and a series of drawings on the theme of what it is to be human. He creates his artwork with acrylic paint,…
Read MoreJuly is the new June Edition, Editor’s Note This was supposed to be a June edition, but there you go, July rolls in. June 30th, my dad’s birthday, this year, the second one after his death. So as I’ve been building this edition, I’ve been thinking a lot about how…
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…
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