ISSUE 16, FALL 2021
EXPERIMENTAL & HYBRIDS
C.B. AUDER
Welcome to Historical Fort Menarche
BELICIA RHEA
The Occupant
H.E. FISHER
Standard Consent Form
What Wasn’t There
SARAH ROSE NORDGREN
Coaching and Country Toilettes
Lace and Jet Pelerine
Winter Hats and Bonnets
MANDIRA PATTNAIK
A Harvest Mismatch
DOMINIQUE K. PIERCE
Migratory Patterns
Skipping Stones
LUCY ZHANG
Excision
POETRY
JESSICA ABUGHATTAS
Let’s not be civil I love you
Nowhere
On Aesthetic
DAISY BASSEN
Isn’t It Still Before?
To my daughter
NICKY BEER
Bi
Green Dress
Herself
CRAIG FINLAY
Heart, Fire, Action
Holy Colors
John Singer Sargent Finds the Wind
MOHJA KAHF
Daaniyatun Qutufuha
Fronting for Your Life
Traitor He Who Kills His People
STEVE KISTULENTZ
A Laundry List of Tiny Goodbyes
For Every Woman Whose Made A Fool of A Man There's One Whose Made A Man of A Fool
Williamsburg
CLAIRE OASA
Pink
MATT SCHUMACHER
Paean to Fake Shrunken Heads
MADELEINE WATTENBERG
Apartment Villanelle
Convenience
Sonnet in My Name
FICTION
KELSEY ASKWITH
Doughy
WYNNE HUNGERFORD
Joyride
JESSICA SMITH
Shocking Multitudes
KOSISO UGWUEZE
The Montana Sisters
CREATIVE NONFICTION
BETH BURGMEYER
Holding On To Hope
TARA FLAHERTY GUY
Levity
RILEY WINCHESTER
The Secrets We Love and the People We Keep
CASSONDRA WINDWALKER
Eudora and the Deer
MIRACLE MONOCLE COMPETITIONS
LEANNE OGASAWARA Winner of the Calvino Prize for Fabulist Fiction
Bare Bones
NNADI SAMUEL Winner of The Miracle Monocle Award for Ambitious Student Writers
Anatomy of My Grief Coming to Me First as a Hissing Thing
MALLORY LUCAS Winner of Perspectives: The Miracle Monocle Award for Visual Art
Pillow Queen
Sub Spotted
The Locker Room Lesbian
MIRACLE MONOCLE REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
BRETT BIEBEL’S 48 BLITZ
Reviewed by Amanda Dolan
THOMAS CALDER’S THE WIND UNDER THE DOOR
Reviewed by Roman Sauls
REBECCA MORGAN FRANK’S OH YOU ROBOT SAINTS!
Reviewed by Brady Alexander
INTERVIEW: STEVE KISTULENTZ
by Ayaat Ismail
INTERVIEW: MADELEINE WATTENBERG
by Michael Pfaff
VISUAL ART
SUNSHINE GAO
Road Trip
SOFIYA LEVINA
Embroidery Work
TAYLOR MCGRAW
Graphomania
ALUU PROSPER
Calm
LILLY WEAKLEY
Self-Portraits in Food