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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
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