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