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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 Writing: makalani 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)