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Overlapping Definitions of Infinity

Overlapping Definitions of Infinity Carol Dorf __________ In childhood infinite time is waiting and waiting and waiting for something to happen – when reaching the moment of the dripping ice cream cone takes one forever two forevers three forevers more – while in adult life there is the infinity between…

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.

Walking on the Levee on Our Way to Angel Mounds

Walking on the Levee on Our Way to Angel Mounds Mark Williams __________ We met on Sunday mornings with our dogs: beagles,retrievers, John Biacinni’s two German Shepherds,a collie, a pair of Great Danes, a pit-mix . . .An ecumenical gathering if ever there was. OnceI counted twenty-one people and twenty-six…

Three Poems

Free Steven Ray Smith __________ You were a baby on the day I met you, and also not, because you had lived already, alone and for yourself already, somewhere invisible to me that I could never visit. But because you didn’t know how to hunt or to hide from those…

How My Dog Smells

How My Dog Smells Dean Flowerfeld __________ The world is a whorl of wonderful whiffsfor a doggie like me who lives by his sniffs and the wind is awash in a welter of wafts,such succulent scents on the breeze are aloft: the sweet and the sour, the savory and musty,the…