ISSUE 22, SPRING 2024
EXPERIMENTAL & HYBRIDS
STEPHEN DELANEY
Hauntings (A Sutured Tale)
MUKETHE KAWINZI
Three Songs From the Field
KAT MEADS
X Marks the (Landing) Spot
ELIZA SCUDDER
Yoga Teacher Training
MARY SENTER
Latchkey Kid: A Tryptic
POETRY
LAINE DERR
A Dozen Hoops
A Letter to F
CANDICE M. KELSEY
This Tender Dwelling
PATRICK KINDIG
the calling
Winter Poem
DAVID KIRBY
Ode to the Bomb-Test Era
Ode to the F-Word
KATE POLAK
Trickster Gods of Appalachia
FICTION
MICHAEL FOY
Until Someone is Named
KATIE KNECHT
The Exam
KIRBY WRIGHT
At the Rolfer's
STEPHEN WUNDERLI
The Birdwatcher
HUINA ZHENG
The Matchmaker's Daughter
CREATIVE NONFICTION
SARAH BRENNAN
Radical Participation: An Introvert Goes to Burning Man
ELISSA GREENWALD
The Sand Hills of Cape Cod
NATHANIEL LACHENMEYER
My Best Friend Steve
TANIA A. MARRON
The Circle
MARY ANN MCGUIGAN
Come Into the Parlor
MIRACLE MONOCLE COMPETITIONS
The Calvino Prize for Fabulist Fiction: Young Rader
A Bit of Green Apple, A Bit of Rotten Meat
The Miracle Monocle Award for Young Black Writers: Adina Jeremiah
Dark Sparkle Beneath Ivory Waves
MIRACLE MONOCLE REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
Millicent Borges Accardi’s Quarantine Highway
Reviewed by Collin White
Lisa Ampleman’s Mom in Space
Reviewed and Interviewed by Ashley Rutland
Ryler Dustin’s Trailer Park Psalms
Reviewed by Jennings Collins
Kristen Gentry’s Mama Said
Interviewed by Keyona Hughes
Read an Excerpt of the Title Story
Chrisopher Kennedy’s The Strange God Who Makes Us
Reviewed by Natalie Mudd
Amy Lee Lillard’s Exile in Guyville
Reviewed by Corey McQueen
Ellen Birkett Morris’s Beware the Tall Grass
Reviewed and Interviewed by John Morgan
VISUAL ART
JACK BORDNICK
Facing It Together Series
TYTTI HEIKKINEN
Leaking Barrels
Quelques Lettres Et Chiffres
Super Graphic
RASHAD ALI MUHAMMAD
LIBERATED Series (cover)
CAROLYN WATSON
Floral Series