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All Flash: Spice of Life, Jan ’24

All Flash: Spice of Life ’24 Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson Managing Editor: Abbie Skinner Guest Editor: Aiman Tariq Assistant Editors: Karris Rae, Taryn White, Meilyn Woods Editorial Assistants: Mia Bonds, Alexandria Knight Digby Beaumont, Frida Kahlo, acrylic over ink Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson Letter from the…

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Aiman Tariq

Aiman Tariq is currently an MA/MFA candidate at McNeese State University. She hails from Peshawar, Pakistan and loves and misses her family spread across two continents. She is particularly interested in writing supernatural romance and likes to read about superstitions and world mysteries that help shape the world of her…

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Summer Love

Summer Love Cassondra Windwalker __________          He was a simple man, with simple hungers. In winter, he ate smoked and salted fish and popcorn. Come spring, he gathered fireweed shoots and dandelion flowers for fresh salads. And in late summer – oh, that was the best of seasons. All…

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Dear Anonymous Cryptid Photographer

Dear Anonymous Cryptid Photographer William Hawkins __________ Item. A letter to the editor published in the Tampa Tribune in which an anonymous woman details an encounter with an unidentified creature which appeared in her backyard, crouched and made ‘woomp’ noises as it stole apples from her back porch. The letter…

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nothing to fear

nothing to fear M. Caroline McCaulay __________             Since Arthur learned the formula to sleeping through the night was a dose of benzo and a G&T that was heavy on the T, it was the noise that became his most supreme irritant. The relentless                                     hic                                                 hic                                                             hic.…

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Abbie Skinner

Abbie Skinner Abbie Skinner is an MFA/MA candidate at McNeese State University. Originally from Southern California, Abbie has spent more than half her life living in New York and abroad. She is happy to have settled in Louisiana for now, at least until her next adventure takes her someplace else.…

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All Football, Mar ’21

All Football ’21 Editor: Chris Lowe Letter from the Editor by Chris Lowe “Double-Sonnet in Race” by Prince Bush Four Poems by Dorsey Craft “Hash Marked” by Jordan Escobar “Parable” by J. Bruce Fuller “The Unexpected Dryness of a Lemon Poppy Scone” by Jacob Ginsberg Two Poems by Raye Hendrix…

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Hash Marked

Hash Marked Jordan Escobar __________ Toothless and hungry, he wakes in the back of his truck. The sky remains broken on grimy windows, as he rubs sensation back into his stubbled jaw. This day and this day again. The pops and aches of his discarded body remembering its own vulnerabilities.…

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The Unexpected Dryness of a Lemon Poppy Scone

The Unexpected Dryness of a Lemon Poppy Scone Jacob Ginsberg __________ Eight pages into Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things, after being stunned to find I’ve somehow plagiarized a book I’ve never opened, I linger over the text on Sophie Mol’s tombstone: A SUNBEAM LENT TO US TOO BRIEFLY; I…

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Mascot

Mascot Beth McMurray __________ My mom had postpartum depression. Not the baby blues type, but the type where she took off and left and went back to Tennessee, to the parts where trailer trash fit right in, leaving my dad and me living in a house atop a liquor store…

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