Category: Online Issue Pieces

[THE HAND A COMET, BEHIND HER TWO PLANETS]

Rion Amilcar Scott   Dearest Slumlord, I watched a most disturbing video the other day. It was a rare moment when the internet worked (yes, I know, not your fault unlike our water which is here...

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Feeding Strays

2017 Fiction Award Winner, Chosen by Patricia Park Ashley Morrow Hermsmeier   Greer pulled a strip of rubbery, partially chewed chicken from her mouth and tossed it onto the saggy porch. “I...

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Engine

Megan Cummins   He sits down next to me at the bar of the sushi restaurant where I’m waiting for my take-out. With a sideways glance I realize he’s old enough to drink but just barely. So...

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Controlling Chaos

Kat McDonald Photography and photoshop. Kat McDonald is a Junior Communications Design Major at Pratt Institute and has an interest in mixing medias and creating new systems of art. Contact the...

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Lesbos

Sina Queyras   What still remains a mystery is how she managed to put away the entire midday meal that I left her, Ted, and Bill. –Dido Merwin How should I remember her? She fired her warning...

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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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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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Something More Like a Sex Spreadsheet

Jon Woodward   She had her feet replaced by leg extensions! She’s a different person than I once thought. I’ve mostly been able to sustain the loss. I’ve amortized the loss...

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The Hay Out There and the Hay in You

Christopher Citro   The way you want it is— you hope to be flying then realize you are flying. I’ve eaten blackberries from your hand where they’re warm from July and your hand. I...

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