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ISSUE 23, FALL 2024

EXPERIMENTAL & HYBRIDS

ERIK FATEMI
This Is Totally, 100 Percent a Work of Fiction

EVAN HARRIS
Invitations to Invisible Gatherings

MATT LEIBEL
How to Grow a Beard
How to Tie a Necktie
How to Survive in a World Without Hats

LUANNE MCNULTY
Indignities of Being a Round-Bottom Flask

GRANT SABLE
The Exile of Iohannes

 

POETRY

SUSAN BARRY-SCHULZ
Self-Portrait As Ten Lies And A Truth

MADDIE CLEVENSTINE
Abecedarian In Which My Mother Is Displayed As The Lumpfish On The Museum Wall

GHAZAL FARIDI
Grand Minimal Gesture
My Last Day in Tehran

JUDITH MIKESCH-MCKENZIE
On the Kulshan or How to Love an Ugly Boat
The Least We Know

JACKSON MILLS SMITH
Speedy Pete’s

 

FICTION

ABBIE DOLL
E-I-E-I-O

B.F. JONES
100 Decibels

L.M. PINO
The Meal

BEN CHARLES RHODES
The Blue Light of the Moon

KASHAWN TAYLOR
Dead Air

  

CREATIVE NONFICTION

D.C. DUBS
The Bingo Card of a Middle School English Teacher

JONATHAN FLETCHER
Bomb

BEN PORTER
Long Gone Dogs

SHARMILA VOORAKKARA
The Monkey God Gets the Brass Ring

SHARON WHITE
Self-Portrait

 

MIRACLE MONOCLE COMPETITIONS

The Winner of the Miracle Monocle Award for Innovative Writing: G.D. Holloway
Collecting the Autographs of Pro Football’s Top Stars

  

MIRACLE MONOCLE REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS

V. Joshua Adams’s Past Lives
Interviewed by Jane Luckett

Heather Bartel's Exit the Body
Reviewed by Madison Bowles

Brooke Champagne’s Nola Face: A Latina’s Life in the Big Easy
Reviewed by Katelyn Allen

Jen Fawkes’s Daughters of Chaos
Reviewed by John Morgan

Mandira Pattnaik’s Glass/Fire
Reviewed by Ariana McMurl

Luke Rolfes’s Sleep Lake
Reviewed by Ezra Forrest

Jeff Russell’s By The Time This Reaches You
Reviewed by Jasper Adams-Smith

Matthew Vollmer's Inscriptions for Headstones 
Reviewed by Liam Lloydsmith 

 

VISUAL ART

LIISA SALOSAARI JASINSKI
Prediction 
Rosy Page (Cover)

AILEEN TIERNEY
LADDER

LINDSEY WARREN
Falling Garden Series