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ISSUE 21, FALL 2023

EXPERIMENTAL & HYBRIDS

GARY BARWIN & ELEE KRALJII GARDINER
Vidalia

AUDREY T. CARROLL
Generational Curses

CHEYENNE LAROQUE
Recipe for Disaster

TAYLOR SYKES
Edie Sedgwick, 1967
Edie Sedgwick, 2007

LISA THORNTON
Mine

 

POETRY

ADRIANNA GORDEY
Fashion Advice from Acanthaspis Petax

KARI GUNTER-SEYMOUR
Every Song a Sigh
When the DJ Plays Bad Company During Girls Night Out After Who Can Remember How Many Tequila Shots

MAYA JACYSZYN
Prayer of the Fledgling

JILL KHOURY
red ode

FASASI ABDULROSHEED OLADIPUPO
Again, We Shall Meet
a ghazal that never gets to bear the name of its author
Metaphors of Everything that Comes to Mind

 

FICTION

CARL BOON
Dilek

JAMES BRUBAKER
How the Future Will Feel

MICHAEL PAUL KOZLOWSKY
Car F—ker

JOHN LYONS 
Maybes and Pink

SAGE MACKIN
The Apple Plaza

 

  

CREATIVE NONFICTION

KATE MAY
Poster Child

APRIL MCCLOUD
Lost and Found

TERRY TROWBRIDGE
Dandelions and Irises

GABRIEL TUGGLE
Burley Harvest

RYAN WALKER
Sugar Poppy Requiem

 

MIRACLE MONOCLE COMPETITIONS

The Winner of The 2023 Miracle Monocle Award for Innovative Writingmakalani bandele
unit of angularity

 

 

MIRACLE MONOCLE REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS

Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel’s Dayswork
Reviewed by John David Morgan (interview included!)

Callie S. Blackstone’s sing eternal
Reviewed by Emily Sledge

James Brubaker’s We Are Ghost Lit
Reviewed by Summer Olmsted

Lydia Davis’s Our Strangers
Reviewed by Jazmyn Lowe

Kristi Maxwell’s Goners
Reviewed by Kaf Warner (interview included!)

 

 

VISUAL ART

RACHEL COYNE
Banner of Heaven
Old Growth
Tilt-A-Whirl

TOM GENGLER 
Glass Pane series

DENISE LANGE
Aloes and Sakura
Ferns and Wings
Suckers and Roses (cover)