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Sundown[ing]

Sundown[ing] Jillee Sexton __________ For the past five years, I’ve woken up at exactly 6 p.m. and consumed two pints of blood from the industrial fridge that sits in the equally industrial kitchen of the house that’s supposed to be mine. The blood is colder than ice every time it…

Crestview Way, October 1985

Crestview Way, October 1985 Victoria Lancelotta __________ It’s Saturday night almost Sunday morning when Jimmy and Abby do it. They’re at Ryan from AP European History’s house, the front door open and the back patio slicked with spilled beer, an October wind spinning wood smoke and brittle leaves. The party’s…

Season of Silence

Season of Silence Mandira Pattnaik __________ Under the cloudy shadows mocking a deeply furrowed farmland, flies a kite feeble against the openness, yellow-and-maroon upon azure, hoping to soar over pockmarked walls and ruined island fortresses, in the kingdom of hawks and seagulls, the power of wind on the scrap of…

Taylor Mahone

Taylor Mahone Taylor Mahone is a fiction writer from Central Florida, and a recent graduate of McNeese State University’s MFA & MA programs. Her fiction deals with alligators, cosmic, horror, the sublime, and landscapes.

Vallie Lynn Watson

Vallie Lynn Watson Vallie Lynn Watson is an Assistant Professor of English/fiction writing in the MFA program at McNeese State University. Her novel, A River So Long, was published by Luminis Books, and recent short stories and essays appear in literary journals such as Hobart, Bending Genres, and PANK. Watson earned her doctorate a thousand…

Life in ABCs

Life in ABCs Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat __________ A blossom-eyed child, doled elephantine fumbles, growls harrumphs in jest; keeps loving magnanimously; noshes (obviously); pooh-poohs quotidian rabble-rousers; somersaults terrifically; understands vileness weaponizes; & x-claims YOLO zealously. __________ Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat is a Thai-Vietnamese American poet and essayist. She’s the author of Em(body)ment of…

On the Shelf

On the Shelf Susan Isla Tepper __________ This container is somewhat larger than my last one, this one is glass on all sides which gives me a perfect view of everyone coming and going, who is kissing who and believes it’s in private, the groping, the skirt coming up, trousers…

Kiss and Tell

Kiss and Tell Jessica B. Sokol __________ Chipperly, lovingly, I tried to peck a buddy’s partner on the lips, and later that night they irately texted their disapproval which showed me the epitome of Connecticut. __________ Jessica B. Sokol writes scandalous creative nonfiction. She’s the author of For Better And Worse: Short Stories…

Season of Silence

Season of Silence Mandira Pattnaik __________ Under the cloudy shadows mocking a deeply furrowed farmland, flies a kite feeble against the openness, yellow-and-maroon upon azure, hoping to soar over pockmarked walls and ruined island fortresses, in the kingdom of hawks and seagulls, the power of wind on the scrap of…

Trampoline

Trampoline Lynn Mundell __________ They’re at Jimmy and Leila’s recommitment ceremony, jumping up and down like cartoon kangaroos on the kids’ backyard trampoline, and it’s just like it used to be, years ago, at her place, their moms hanging out the kitchen window, smoking cigs like twin dragons, yelling be…