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…
Read More“Boo”din: Bite of the Uncanny, Oct. ’23 Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson Managing Editor: Abbie Skinner Assistant Editors: Karris Rae, Aiman Tariq, Taryn White, Meilyn Woods Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson Fiction “Prey Drive” by Oliver Brooks “Patrona” by William Hawkins “The Teeth” by Stephanie Hayes “Tooth Appointment” by Ben Larned…
Read MoreBoudin 2023 All Poetry: June ’23 Managing Editor: Mayank Manchanda “Tonight” by John Brantingham “Sagittarius A*” by Rohan Buettel “Sixteen Rounds of Chemo” by Sara Pirkle “A Typical Day in the Life of Love” by JC Reilly July is the New June: July ’23 Managing Editor: Michael Horner Letter from…
Read MoreSixteen Rounds of Chemo Sara Pirkle __________ After a nurse pluckedthe IV from my portlike a wasp stingerand the rubber-tire tasteof Taxol faded— After the victorypicture was snappedand posted onlinefor hundreds ofstrangers to like— After fake smilingwhile a chorusof nurses serenadedas I dutifully rangthe treatment bell— I sank into the…
Read MorePost-Modern Polonius Anne Babson __________ “Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell” – William ShakespearePolonius stabbed behind tapestry — But audiences don’t mourn his murder.Hackneyed speeches are the real travesty. Today, when prose is cannon fodder,“There is nothing outside the text.” It bores,Bereft of meaning, say Doctors.The musings of the sage…
Read More“Boo”din: It Came from the Swamp, Oct ’22 Poetry Editor: Rachel Pittman Fiction Editor: Abbie Skinner Victoria de Benedicty, “Swamp Girl” (2022), oil paint and oil pastel Fiction “Dear Anonymous Cryptid Photographer” by William Hawkins “nothing to fear” by M. Caroline McMaulay “Summer Love” by Cassondra Windwalker Poetry “Feu-Follet” by…
Read MorePumpkin Ash and Cypress Knees Katherine Quevedo __________ Bald cypress thrusts its knees in knobby little spires just above the waterline. Pumpkin ash bulges at the base of its trunk, engorged with brackish drink. By moonlight, I can almost discern the red spikes of cardinal flowers craning their necks alongside…
Read MoreFeu-Follet Danelle Lejeune __________ This trace is what’s left of us. Look for the weight of light, the particles falling down like crumbs. The mass of the universe is choking, leaving lines, chain burns, in my flesh. These pieces of you, pieces of me, we are stardust. The music of…
Read MoreRyleigh Wann __________ Lore of Swamp Girl I wasn’t always this wretched. Men paint me up when they talk outside the shaken down juke joint, drunk off warm whiskey, drool pooling from snarled teeth: the woman who hides in the swamp off the Delta— murky with moss and mud and…
Read MoreRachel Pittman is a PhD candidate at Georgia State University where she teaches composition. She holds an MFA from McNeese State University. Her writing has appeared in miniskirt mag, Whale Road Review, Gingerbreadhouse, & Grimoire Magazine.
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