Author: phoebejournal

Wonder

Sean Lovelace   Above western France, James Franco tumbled (more sucked out actually) from a C-82 cargo plane and spinning, spinning, through strands of torn cotton, whirls of luggage-shaped...

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Wait

Randon Billings Noble   wait|wāt| verb no obj. List I paced a room, a neighborhood Ate a party-sized bag of ripple chips Whispered “Heathcliff” in the dark Hit myself in the face with a...

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2016 Pushcart Prize Nominations

2016 Pushcart Prize We are pleased to announce our 2016 Pushcart Prize nominations! Fiction Nominees Siamak Vossoughi, “The Lie and the Truth”  Miranda...

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Jill Magi, from “SPEECH”

Jill Magi                 her heat rose as she stepped out in front of herself as the American Medical Association fatally weakened the drive for socialized medicine by 1949, she locked...

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Undergrowth

Miranda Schmidt   When the two people come into the woods, they bring their noise with them. They crackle old leaves in new hiking boots, snap pictures and laugh as they point at birds and...

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This Story

Jill Christman   Here is the so-called dead grandmother story the teacher told us not to write. Everybody has one.   Once upon a time there was a shy, bookish, bespectacled girl with a larger...

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Issue 46.1, Fall 2016

Table of Contents Special Feature: Coruscation Editor’s Note from Robbie Maakestad Poetry Collier Nogues, “Aunt Burn (O.E.D.)” Jill Magi, from SPEECH Sueyeun Juliette Lee,...

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for who performs not practical work nor makes experiments will never attain to the least degree

Sueyeun Juliette Lee   Elemental fire in its purest blue hue captures an echo of human hands outstretched towards the end. Flicker flash consumption and a quiver, or breath spurts from what...

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Aunt Burn (O.E.D)

Collier Nogues 1. Of fire: she remembers sitting with her father at the upstairs hearth, before they had a furnace. Not the conflagration of the high school, not the brick church burning. Not the...

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Getting High on Pop

Kim Chinquee   At the auction I wear a bright pink tank top and walk around in my bare feet. I touch my face. I’m so hot that my teeth hurt. People stand around a flatbed, where the...

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