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ISSUE 19, FALL 2022
EXPERIMENTAL & HYBRIDS
LISA AMPLEMAN
Supermommy
Try Staying Home
ANNA BAGOLY
I was raised as a hungarian
ALYSON MOSQUERA DUTEMPLE
Just Before Retiring, the Elementary Teacher Pins a Note to the 1st Place Ribbon on the Winning Wisconsin Fast Plants Exhibit, K-4 Division
GABRIELA DENISE FRANK
love
real bad
CORDELIA HANEMANN
Door to the Land
DAVID HERMAN
Dogs: A Diaspora
SKYLER MELNICK
Ascension
Brideship
In This Heat I'm Not Myself
E.A. MIDNIGHT
mundane object: the sink
JEN SCHNEIDER
Of Books & Order
KRISTINA STOCKS
Gimme Shelter & Watermelon Tall Girls
Permission
EVAN D. WILLIAMS
NO ONE THERE TO TELL US
POETRY
ZOE ANTOINE-PAUL
The week God spares me
ACE BOGGESS
How Did You Manage Prison Without Going Completely Crazy?
MARISA P. CLARK
An Absolution
Mythological Beasts
Rock Springs Circle
AMANDA CONOVER
Pumpkin
Snow
Stars
SARAH EDMONDS
Love and Other Drugs
JOSHUA BRIDGWATER HAMILTON
Interior Displacements
Vagary Ships
JEFFREY H. MACLACHLAN
Tillamook Campfire Tale
MEERA PARASURAMAN Editors' Choice for Issue 19
A Lotus In Its Moorings
KATHRYN SADAKIERSKI
Burger King Bob Ross
chrysalis
Sliver of a Second
TRAVIS STEPHENS
Baba Yaga's Sister
Da Bootchers
My Neighbor Talks Way Too Loud
FICTION
REBECCA BIHN-WALLACE Long Story Celebration Special
The Zurich House (please note: this story is also available as a free digital download)
KATHERINE JOSHI Editors' Choice for Issue 19
Motherhood
A.C. KOCH
The Castles of Colibrisa
ARANDUS LARSON
The Strangling Root
M.J. SIONS
Lovesick Cat Liar
CREATIVE NONFICTION
HEATHER BARTEL
YET THE PHANTOM WAS PART OF THE FLOWER
BETH GILSTRAP
There Is News Along the Ohio River, XVIII-XX
ELLEN BIRKETT MORRIS
Improvising My Way Through Loss
JAMES B. NICOLA
Bombs Away
BILL WEAVERLING
The Kind Old Son
MIRACLE MONOCLE COMPETITIONS
REBECCA PYLE Winner of the 2022 Miracle Monocle Award for Innovative Writing
Honey, Himalayan Salt
Interview with Rebecca Pyle by Caden Holbrook
MIRACLE MONOCLE REVIEWS
H.E. Fisher’s Sterile Field
Reviewed by Charlie Lewis
Lauren Haldeman’s Team Photograph
Reviewed by Brady Alexander
Ellen Birkett Morris’s Lost Girls
Reviewed by Cassidy Witt
Carolyn Oliver’s Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble
Reviewed by Jacob Prince
Kiki Petrosino’s Bright
Reviewed by Ayaat Ismail
Karen Poppy’s our own beautiful brutality
Reviewed by Isabel Beckham
Phoebe Reeves’s The Flame of Her Will
Reviewed by Carrington Kinslow
Adam Tavel’s Green Regalia
Reviewed by Clay Arvin