ISSUE 14, SPRING 2020
EXPERIMENTAL & HYBRIDS
BRETT BIEBEL
Message to the Grassroots
JOSHUA GOTTLIEB-MILLER
There Are Many Jewish Folktales, Such as This One
BETH GILSTRAP AND JIM WARNER
Dischord No. 17.5
Revelation 144
SORAMIMI HANAREJIMA
Ameliorative Measures
KENDYL HARMELING
An Unbecoming End
J.I. KLEINBERG
A Note
Nights
No Seagulls
ROBERT ERIC SHOEMAKER
Terrariums
CATHY ULRICH
Round and Round
POETRY
EMILY ROSE COLE
Saint Joan to Queen Guinevere: Some Advice on Burning
KEN CRAFT
A Boy, A City
Loyalty
BARBARA DANIELS
Black Silk
Linen Heart
Snow Fences
ISIAH FISH
The Lavender Shotgun
JENNIFER HABEL
A Concept of Service
The Obstetrician’s Lesson
Warp and Weft
HEIKKI HUOTARI
Body English 2
Pas De Deux
BABITHA MARINA JUSTIN
Yakshi
CHARLES KELL
Queequeg Mask
LEAH MUELLER
110 Degrees and No Relief in Sight
FORREST RAPIER
The Neanderthal Tongue
BRAD ROSE
Redecorating
The Perfect Gift
JADE RIORDAN
Jar of Night
There Is No Daylight
We Whittle Silver
MARY ANN SAMYN
A Chance Meeting/Look Both Ways
Not Nearly
Ring A Bell
FICTION
EMILY BECK COGBURN
Crossing the River
CATHLEEN DAVIES
The Family
JASON PRIMM
Barge Bash
JOE SACKSTEDER
Tunneling
JOSÉ SOTOLONGO
Enabling Cordelia
EMILY BURTON UDUWANA
Almost Mothers
CREATIVE NONFICTION
JOAN CONNOR
The Amazing Sea Monkeys At Home: A Flash Biography
J. DAVID
I Don’t Believe Anymore That Poetry Saves Us
JASON MEHL
Tribal Markings
JONATHAN RYLANDER
Paddle
PATTI WHITE
Chimayo
CALVINO PRIZE WINNER
MARGIE SARSFIELD
Behavioral Sink
MIRACLE MONOCLE REVIEWS
A Letter from Our Assistant Editor
JOHN GALLAHER’S BRAND NEW SPACESUIT
Reviewed by Cat Sar
KRISTI MAXWELL’S MY MY
Reviewed by Adam Yeich
JUSTINE AIMEE MCNULTY’S SWEET ROT
Reviewed by Cassidy Clayton
JOE SACKSTEDER’S MAKE/SHIFT
Reviewed by Amy Dotson
VISUAL ART
RYOTA MATSUMOTO
Electric Flesh and Anatomical Interventions (Cover)
Recursive Topography of Uncertainty
ROBERT OEHL
Just
Listen
Distressed Ziatype Self-Portraits
DERRIANN PHARR
Cheeks!
Pupa
Storm Cloud