ISSUE 17, FALL 2022
EXPERIMENTAL & HYBRIDS
AMY BARNES
The Candlestick Maker Has Lost Her Way
MERRIDAWN DUCKLER
Parable of the Credo
MOLLY GALLENTINE
Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures: On the Subject of Love
HARLI JAMES
Notes
HEATHER LANIER
Marriage Hunters: An UnReality Essay
KELLENE O’HARA
Machine
Tu me manques
MACEY SIDLASKY
Star-Shaped Glial Cells: A Micro Collection
SARAH J. SLOAT
If you leave...
I was an Unbeliever...
Like a bottle of rosy light...
ANDREW WILDERMUTH
Subdued Ochre
POETRY
JESSICA BARKSDALE
Zoo Story
LUCIA CHERCIU
What Advice Would Mircea Dinutz, My Teacher of Latin, Give Me?
COLEMAN CHILDRESS
Broken Cabins on the Branch
SATYA DASH
In the Land of Blemishes
LILIA MARIE ELLIS
The Difference Between Being Checked Out And Being Clocked
RACHAEL INCIARTE
Choking Hazards
How to Remove Cradle Cap
DANA ROESER
De Plus En Plus
TEJA SUDHAKAR
I Find Myself Defending Sunlight
BRENDAN WALSH
Particle Board
Pop Tarts
ELLEN JUNE WRIGHT
Mistaken Identity
Painting Ourselves c. 1980
FICTION
WENDY BOOYDEGRAAFF
Bavaria
DARA YEN ELERATH
Amygdala
How We Learned About Our Bodies
The Silent Sisters
NICHOLAS MACDONELL
Purgatoire
MICHELLE NEUFFER
Flip Turn
TOBI LEE SIGONA
Florence & Hugo
MATT WHELIHAN
Listen
CREATIVE NONFICTION
BROOKE CHAMPAGNE
Don’t You Forget About Me
JACK COOPER
Sweet & Pure, Warm & Tender, Young & Beautiful
CLARA FRANK
Voigtlander
REBECCA PYLE
Paris is a Messy City
SARA WIGAL
Hackberry
MIRACLE MONOCLE COMPETITIONS
LIZ KELLEBREW Winner of The Miracle Monocle Award for Innovative Writing
A Music of Ribs
MIRACLE MONOCLE REVIEWS
HAYAN CHARARA’S These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit
Reviewed by Ayaat Ismail
MIKE CHIN’S My Grandfather’s an Immigrant, and So Is Yours
Reviewed by Delanna Betlej
SY HOAWAH’S Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride
Reviewed by Erin Wedemeyer
CHARLES KELL’S Cage of Lit Glass
Reviewed by Kyla Thomas