ISSUE 10, SPRING 2018

⚜ EXPERIMENTAL & HYBRID


FRANCES CANNON
From the Horses’s Mouth

SARAH GORHAM
Microconfessions

MARK GOSZTYLA
Excerpt from Everything is Obvious After it Happens

JOSHUA KNIGHT
Call Me Deo
Ares Speaks

RYAN RIDGE & MEL BOSWORTH
Three Days

SARAH ROSENTHAL
Excerpt from Estelle Meaning Star

MATHIAS SVALINA
Curiosity

HAELE WOLFE
To Help You Say the World

 

⚜ POETRY


V. JOSHUA ADAMS
Paris Poem
Question of Tense

SAMUEL AMADON
Belly Song

LISA AMPLEMAN
Evacuating
Breaking the Wheel

REBECCA MORGAN FRANK
Mothman
Vaucanson’s Digesting Duck (1739)

JOHN GALLAHER
That the Job of the Son Is to Fight the Father’s Battles
The Universal Flood
For the King of Nothing Left

KATHLEEN HELLEN
Once They Killed A Tiger on a Sippy Cup
Eighteen

TRACEY KNAPP
Thirteen
Parathesia
Sleep Paralysis

REBECCA LEHMANN
Floodplain
Elegy for Almost
Fever

KRISTI MAXWELL
We Don't Understand What Our Lives Look Like Until They Look Like Our Lives
Our Boyfriend
Face Plant

ERIC PANKEY
Chimney Growing Out of Rubble
The Line Starts Here
A Heap of Unrolled Bandages Upon the Floor

ONDŘEJ PAZDÍREK
Photograph With Expectation
Hands
To K.H. Mácha

ELIZABETH SENJA SPACKMAN
Pre-Existing Condition: Three Variations

KENT SHAW
Dear Mark Doty, Are You The Man I Met 10 Years Ago?
Definitions of Lucky Are Too Numerous

SARA WATSON
Our Corresponding and Heart-shaped Tattoos
I Have a Headache and I Hate Everything That Happened Today

MAURA WAY
Cursive
Wireless

 

⚜ FICTION


REBBECCA BROWN
Squelch

ANDREW BRININSTOOL
A Tenth of a Second Is All It Takes to See a Thing Complete

MICHAEL CHIN
Her Last Match

SUSANN COKAL
The Loneliness of Carson Drew

MICHELLE FALKOFF
As Expected

CHAD PATTON
The Nights of Excuses

MARY ROGERS
Our Day Will Come

WILLIAM TORPHY
Birds of the Lesser Islands

KAYLA RAE WHITAKER
Excerpt from The Animators
Interview with Kayla Rae Whitaker by Luke Geddes

 

⚜ CREATIVE NONFICTION


ZACK BEAN
Dropping the Dogs

EVAN GUILFORD-BLAKE
Solace

HANNAH DRAKE
Dear America

ANDREW M. HOWARD
After After All

CHRISTINE PAYNE
Echo

ERIN WOODWinner of the Miracle Monocle Editors' Award for Emerging Writers
Red: Our Aura Reading

 

⚜ AMBITIOUS STUDENT WRITERS


ANDREW CHAPMAN
Love Poem for Horses

ANASTASIA DOTZAUER
St. Dorothy in February

VANESSA FULLER
Split Ends

JESSICA NEWMANWinner of the Miracle Monocle Award for Ambitious Student Writing
Mariella

ZOEY MORRIS
Love Letters

WILLA TINSLEY
only in pseudonym

 

⚜ VISUAL ART


SPECIAL FEATURE: SIX WRITERS EXPLORE COLLAGE
Andrew Bales
Thomas Calder
John Gallaher
Luke Geddes
Karyna McGlynn
Matthew Vollmer

READING FACES: A SUITE OF PORTRAITURE
Elijah Ervin
Brooke Coughenour
Olivia Sizemore

AMBER ESTES THIENEMAN: OUR COVER ARTIST
Parallel Perception No. 1
Parallel Perception No. 16