ISSUE 18, SPRING 2022
EXPERIMENTAL & HYBRIDS
LUCY TALBOT ALLEN
219: The Furies House
JUDE DEXTER
Dad It's Me, Your Son: I Want to Be A Woman, or a Portrait of the Artist as V. Pugh
SAMUEL FISHMAN
Dictionary of Antisemitism: A Belated Response to Bishop Richard Williamson
J.I. KLEINBERG
before
everyone
the bird
JULIE LUNDE
Three Pieces From the Catalogue of the Gallery of Impossible Arts
CAROLYN OLIVER
Mercy
KATRINA PAPOUSKAYA
Girl on Pavement
BRAD ROSE
Change the Locks
Could Always be Worse
JOHN TALBIRD
Terrible Positions
Faith and Guts
The Clumsiest of Cinematic Techniques
TOM WALSH
Filing a Missing Person Report When You Don’t Really Want to Find the Person Who’s Missing
How to Make Leftover Cupcake Stew for Your Redneck In-Laws on Your 10th Wedding Anniversary
POETRY
LORELEI BACHT
Acute Failure and Its Attempted Lesson
ELIZABETH J. COLEMAN
Joy Had No Use for E
MICHAEL DOWDY
Palmetto State Armory’s Second Amendment Poetry Contest
AMANDA HARTZELL
Oranges for Breakfast
TOM C. HUNLEY
Downloadable Caffeine
KAREN POPPY
Better Mother
DANI PUTNEY
Inertia
ANANYA KANAI SHAH
Aftermath
ADAM TAVEL
Daedalus in His Delirium
People Scrambling to Get Away from a Person with Leprosy
FICTION
ANNE FREIER
The Greenhouse
FRANCES KOZIAR
Dreaming Beauty
IAN LINDSAY
When I Go Back
LENA MAHMOUD
The Beguiling Ghoul
JESSICA STARICKA
Swamp Story
CREATIVE NONFICTION
PATRICK CARRICO
Gigs
NETTIE FARRIS
French Street
My Uncle Mel
The Carter Farm
ROWAN MACDONALD
Cloud Cover
KC PEDERSEN
When the Witches Stopped Singing
MIRACLE MONOCLE COMPETITIONS
STEVE WILSON Winner of the 2022 Calvino Award for Fabulist Fiction
Ted
MIRACLE MONOCLE REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Nicky Beer’s Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes
Reviewed by Brady Alexander
Siân Griffiths’s The Sum of Her Parts
Reviewed by Ayaat Ismail
Rachael Inciarte's What Kind Of Seed Made You
Reviewed by Ashley Wallace
Tyler Friend’s Him or Her or Whatever
Reviewed by Tessa Pickle
Luke Rolfes’s Impossible Naked Life
Reviewed by Amy Dotson
Matthew Vollmer’s This World Is Not Your Home
Interview by Eli Megibben
Space and Representation in the Literary World
A Digital Roundtable Interview with Gabrielle Ione Hickmon, Lena Mahmoud, and Ellen van Neerven by Ayaat Ismail
VISUAL ART
JOHN CHANG
Language 4
Language 5
SHELBEY LECO
Desurrection (Cover)
If I Only Had Wings
Portrait of Ners
PENG QI
Flashing Body
Flashing Eye
Flashing Leo