Issue #11 ~ Spring 2023
Released April 12, 2023
FLASH NONFICTION:
The Heart and Other Organs by Nancy Jorgensen
Nonfiction:
Nocturnal Lagophthalmos by Christi Krug
The Truth About My Old Haunts by Elizabeth Collis
Translation:
You Shall Be the Earth by Roberto Azcorra Cámara, Translation by Pennell Somsen
Poetry:
War Time, 1942 by William Trowbridge
Mugshot by Sara Burge
I Remember Good Days by Ellen June Wright
Love Poem for My Mother by Patricia Aya Williams
Mass in Quarantine by Tania Runyan
The Last Trick by Eric Lochridge
FICTION:
Roger and Flight 8124 by Dustin Moon
Flash Fiction:
Good Friday by Richard Stimac
Two Micro Stories by Lauren Dennis
Introducing Micro Monday! Featuring brief fiction, cnf, and poetry. It’s like a shot of literary adrenaline to jump start your week.
This week’s Feature…
Thirteen Black by Sanum Patel
The dealer shot the ball, rippling up and down the wheel. Red, black, red, black. The odd green swirling in. Every roll held a blissful future — the world collapsing into nothing or blooming under my palms. It wasn’t a fool’s bet. It was the opposite of marriage…
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Author Spotlight…
Interview with Carolyn Williams-Noren and Lee Colin Thomas
My dad’s career was with an oil company in Alaska, and I worked for the company myself one summer. My life today is very different from that—I live in Minneapolis, doing work that feels distant from the project of taking oil out of the ground, if not always its opposite. The poems look back at that time “close” to oil with curiosity. I basically asked myself over and over, “When was I closest to oil?…
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from the archives:
Summer Elegy II by Todd Robinson
Summer Elegy II | Todd Robinson Nebraska’s bare branchespaw at skies full of pointless blue, mercurial daymoon.Powerless like me or my disabled wifewobbling our broken palace in cashmere and bracken. She…
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Backwards and Blind by Helyn Trickey Bradley
Backwards and Blind | Helyn Trickey Bradley Grief has made me a morning person. It shakes me awake at three a.m and whispers with a hoarse voice into my ear. …
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dear sister by Sequoia Maner
dear sister | Sequoia Maner i’d like to think we never experienced a world where foster care fostered absence. we went to the roller rink for birthdays. later we…
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Street People – Portraits of the Opioid Crisis by Sally Quon
Street People – Portraits of the Opioid Crisis | Sally Quon “Marianna” Marianna is on the street tonight. She has a bed, but there are times when her psychosis is…
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What They Carried With Them by Ellen June Wright
What They Carried With Them | Ellen June Wright They carried everything one can bring when one can bring nothing. They carried everything they knew: languages and dialects, songs mothers taught…
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Cover Art: Scarred Beauty by Gerburg Garmann