ISSUE 13, FALL 2019
EXPERIMENTAL & HYBRIDS
GUILHERME BERGAMINI
Contractions
EMILY CARR
Side Effects: A Poetry Quiz
LATON CARTER
Operetta for Barbara Donald
AIDAN FUREY
The Sapling Test
SABRINA GASKILL
Lance
Old Medicine
KEVIN MOFFETT
Some Company
J. PASCUTAZZ
Otter and Possum in Winter
CLAIRE POLDERS
Guidelines for Non-Americans on Writing a Classic American Story
BRANDON RUSHTON ✪ Experimental & Hybrids Editors' Choice
Milankovitch Cycles
POETRY
MILLICENT BORGES ACCARDI
Considered to Have Magic Power
In Salty Humidity
BRANDON AMICO
Growing Cold
I Wish Every Day Were Black Friday
MARY ARDERY
Keeping Our Dinner Reservation After The Doctor Refers My Sister To An Oncologist
Night Group
Sleepover Montage
MARGARITA CRUZ
Billowing
ROBIN GOW
Angler Fish
Herring
Shark
SHAUN HALLOWAY
A Fake Signature on Fake Documents
The Penguins in Antarctica
ELLEN HAGAN
Google Search
To both girls dipping bread in bowls of savory black beans in the Condesa—Mexico City, April 2019
Search the Distance
LYD HAVENS
Do you believe in rock & roll?
[Static]
Things I know to be true // maybe
MAURICE MANNING
Like Flicks of Flame
CARRIE OEDING ✪ Poetry Editors' Choice
If I Could Give You a Line
I Would Give You A Drawn Line
D. ERIC PARKISON
Pessimist's Volta
JADE RIORDAN
Jar of Night
There Is No Daylight
We Whittle Silver
OLAJIDE SALAWU
Aliou Kande at Point Zero
Another Cavalry
Aubade for the Children at Randa
RIKKI SANTER
The most important thing / is that everyone who wants a catapult gets a catapult
Weekend Tectonic
FICTION
DANIEL J. CECIL ✪ Fiction Editors' Choice
Recollecting the Field of Corn
LEE KLEIN
The Black Opal Ring
RAE MONROE
The Maple on Murray
ERIC BRYAN
The Road to Hell and Tallahassee
NAZLI KARABIYIKOGLU
In Illo Tempore
CREATIVE NONFICTION
KAREN EMBRY
Where I Live
ELIOT HUDSON ✪ Creative Nonfiction Editors' Choice
Eves of Louisiana
JULIA KOETS
Azalea
Q&A with Miracle Monocle
MICHAEL P. MORAN
Faith and Miracles
KENT SHAW
I Am In Love With A Database
MIRACLE MONOCLE COMPETITIONS
ADAM BYKO Winner of the Miracle Monocle Award for Ambitious Student Writing
Take Care
G. BERNHARD SMITH Winner of the Miracle Monocle Award for Innovative Writing
The Red Bus to San Pedro
MIRACLE MONOCLE REVIEWS: FIVE NEW BOOKS OF POETRY
A Letter from Our Assistant Editor
BRANDON AMICO’S DISAPPEARING, INC.
Reviewed by Laura Esparza
LISA AMPLEMAN’S ROMANCES
Reviewed by Taylor Thompson
JOHN JAMES’S THE MILK HOURS
Reviewed by Adam Yeich
REBECCA LEHMANN’S RINGER
Reviewed by Amy Dotson
ANDREW RIHN’S REVELATION
Reviewed by Jack Smith
VISUAL ART
MARIEKEN COCHIUS
Selections from A Space Once Occupied, Now Empty
JOANNA MYLES
Just
Listen
Understand
LETITIA QUESENBERRY Cover Artist
Selections from Hyperspace 17