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Issue No. 26

Fall/Winter 2020

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Bodies in states of weakness and creation, disease and motherhood, are pulled together in Mai Tran’s “Variants of Unknown Significance.” A baker pleads for their home to remain a safe haven amidst a war in Kirmen Uribe’s “The Baker’s Poem.” In Gnaomi Siemens’ “All My Ancestors,” generations of women give their treasures to the ones before.

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Features
An Exploration of Human Shape and Light
Siddharth Dasgupta
Poetry, Issue 26
An Exploration of Human Shape and Light
Siddharth Dasgupta
Poetry, Issue 26

“The healing is a continent
too. It is the tissue

of human faith, the ache
of animal longing. “

Siddharth Dasgupta
Poetry, Issue 26
Field Guide
Ash Durrance
Poetry, Issue 26
Field Guide
Ash Durrance
Poetry, Issue 26

“By noon, we knew the sun was through with us  
and our small adventure. Even the bloodwort,  
the tall red ferns, and the L-O-V-E scored  
in black paint below the overpass could tell  
we knew nothing of them.”

Ash Durrance
Poetry, Issue 26
The Mountain of Longing
Leeyee Lim
Fiction, Short Fiction, Issue 26
The Mountain of Longing
Leeyee Lim
Fiction, Short Fiction, Issue 26

“Returning home after her divorce, she moves through airport crowds, her grandmother’s house, and the tight choreography of conversation with her mother—love expressed through food, folded clothes, silence, and superstition.”

Leeyee Lim
Fiction, Short Fiction, Issue 26
A Stranger’s Hips, A Stranger’s Hands
Alyssa Northrop
Fiction, Short Fiction, Issue 26
A Stranger’s Hips, A Stranger’s Hands
Alyssa Northrop
Fiction, Short Fiction, Issue 26

“In my mind I played the image of him and the visual artist, their long limbs entangled, his hand on her throat, his eyes on her contorted face, his other hand kneading her heavy breasts.”

Alyssa Northrop
Fiction, Short Fiction, Issue 26
“I Have Been Exposed to a Toxic Mineral Compound” & “Ode to Kubrick’s ‘Old Woman in Bath’”
Macaulay Glynn
Issue 26
“I Have Been Exposed to a Toxic Mineral Compound” & “Ode to Kubrick’s ‘Old Woman in Bath’”
Macaulay Glynn
Issue 26

oiceless
but for when you appear
mirrored, a bloated hag
haw-hawing like a woman
could, I suppose, if he imagined
so.

Macaulay Glynn
Issue 26
This Weight, This Warmth
Zak Salih
Fiction, Short Fiction, Issue 26
This Weight, This Warmth
Zak Salih
Fiction, Short Fiction, Issue 26

“Slipping around the woman, who smiles at unconscious Caleb, Daddy Sami spends a minute in front of Frank (No. 7). Massive man, massive cigar, massive leather coat.”

Zak Salih
Fiction, Short Fiction, Issue 26
All My Ancestors
Gnaomi Siemens
Poetry, Issue 26
All My Ancestors
Gnaomi Siemens
Poetry, Issue 26

“Now all the women after, are her lovers and will praise her with gifts. With their sacred rot, their bodies will mingle in the making of new soil.”

Gnaomi Siemens
Poetry, Issue 26
Corvette
Roxana Robinson
Fiction, Short Fiction, Issue 26
Corvette
Roxana Robinson
Fiction, Short Fiction, Issue 26

“She’d thought she could drive so fast in that sleek yellow car that she’d outstrip everything else, make the world a blur. But the world was still there, steam rising from the long sleek hood, the car stopped dead forever.”

Roxana Robinson
Fiction, Short Fiction, Issue 26
“Another Moon” & “Bruised Jasmines”
Marco Yan
Poetry, Issue 26
“Another Moon” & “Bruised Jasmines”
Marco Yan
Poetry, Issue 26

“Nearing thirty, we’re still children who see only metaphors. We’re pilgrims who follow the glow, our minds the candles burning in a tin box, all wax and flames.”

Marco Yan
Poetry, Issue 26
When I Was Thirteen
Nayereh Doosti
Fiction, Short Fiction, Issue 26
When I Was Thirteen
Nayereh Doosti
Fiction, Short Fiction, Issue 26

“She made me sit next to her, arms shaved thoroughly, her skin covered in razor burns. ‘We’ll get another one.’”

Nayereh Doosti
Fiction, Short Fiction, Issue 26

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