Issue #10 ~ Winter 2023
Released January 26, 2023
Nonfiction:
Iowa Blues, and Greens by Summer Hammond
Stage & Screen:
“Guten Tag, Baby!” by Scott C. Sickles
Poetry:
Nikah by Sarah Aziz
This is How the Body Knows by Soon Jones
Migrant Wish by Moni Brar
Turnings by Rohan Buettel
Ascension by T.M. Thomson
Portrait of a Body as Spring by Emmanuel Mgbabor
FICTION:
Who Takes the Bus in LA by Marc Eichen
Flash Fiction:
Mothers and Brothers, 3 flash by Gargi Mehra
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This week’s Buzz Blog Feature…
The Echo of Footsteps by Ibrahim Abdulhakeem
Each step carried the weight of exhaustion, of dreams deferred and dignity swallowed in silence. Ayo would listen from his room, curled up with his homework, his hands clammy as he gripped his pen. Would today be different? Would the tension in the air dissipate, leaving room for laughter instead of raised voices?…
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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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