ISSUE 15, FALL 2020

EXPERIMENTAL & HYBRIDS

DESPY BOUTRIS
Recovery

THAD DEVASSIE
Something Historic

EPIPHANY FERRELL
Places I Have Peed

DOUGLAS KEARNEY
Ol Nepenthe Home

TRINITY FRITZ LAWRENCE
Notes on Humanity

KRISTEN RENEE MILLER
Three Mistranslations

MARIANNA PARANYAN
Tale Of The Sahara Ocean: In Three Languages

JOSHUA WETJENExperimental & Hybrids Editors’ Choice
Mouse Bodies

 

 

POETRY

ALLISON ADAIR
People Don’t Know What We Mean When We Say “Us”
Rush On, These Cows Aren’t Dancing
Self-Portrait as Aging, with Vertigo and a Singing Six-Year-Old

SARAH BLACKMAN
At the Grocery Store
Babcocks
Word of the Day

YUAN CHANGMING
All Heart Rooted: Lesson One in Chinese Characters

REBECCA LEHMANNPoetry Editors’ Choice
Dawn
Moses
Ok, Kids

PETER LEIGHT
City of Absence
I Think I’m Recovering
Mutual Time

SHAHÉ MANKERIAN
A Condolence Card

BECKA MARA MCKAY
Meanwhile, the Wolves

M.A. SCOTT
[Grief, little sister]
[Magic, little sister]

ELLIE WHITE
My Bitstrip Avatar Waxes Philosophical

 

 

FICTION

CHARLES BOOTH
Free Drinks for War Heroes

KIRA CLARK
The Erotic

JOEL FISHBANE
Paper to Wood

SHENA MCAULIFFEFiction Editors’ Choice
The Other Matter

MANNIKA MISHRA
A Month of Sundays

KATHERINE SINBACK
After the After

 

 

CREATIVE NONFICTION

THOMAS BADYNA
Of Lucky Ducks and Kingdom Come

AUDREY T. CARROLLCreative Nonfiction Editors’ Choice
Gorgoneion: A Chorus

SI N GRIFFITHS
Writing Boudica

ANASTASIA JILL
Fat Girl with an Eating Disorder

ALICE LOWE
Pescatarian

JENNIFER JEANNE MCARDLE
Living With Creepy, Crawly Things

 

 

MIRACLE MONOCLE COMPETITIONS

JEFF RUSSELLWinner of the Miracle Monocle Award for Innovative Writing
Selections from an Untitled Poem in Three Voices

ERNEST O. ÒGÚNYẸMÍWinner of the Miracle Monocle Award for Young Black Writers
Tilt

BEE MORRISRunner-Up for the Miracle Monocle Award for Young Black Writers
Landscape with Alternate Ending

 

 

MIRACLE MONOCLE REVIEWS

JEN FAWKES’S MANNEQUIN AND WIFE: STORIES
Reviewed by Hannah Robinson

ERIC FREEZE’S FRENCH DIVE: LIVING MORE WITH LESS IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
Reviewed by Christina Woosley

ROBIN GOW’S OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL DEGENERACY
Reviewed by Brady Alexander

 

 

VISUAL ART

ALY FISHER
A Warning
Woman with Self-Esteem
Black Sheep

VAN LANIGH
From the Chasing Rainbows Series

ELIZABETH STETLER
Between
Permeate
Remaining