Jocelyn Johnson They hung that name on you at birth, but Virginia was never your home. Read Nausea by Sartre and give yourself a new one. Trumpet your new name to the liver-spotted washroom mirror,...
Shelley Wood I met Suki in my life-drawing class, back when she’d already quit her job and had all that other shit happen, but still had both boobs. I figured she was working on improving herself...
Kathryne David Gargano the boy says: devils cannot move human semen locally! he cries it in the streets, flogging his papers / so sensational, this boy— he forgets so earnestly the way women are...
Annie Lampman A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. —Philippe Ariès I. May 19, 1980: grey ash falling like a dirty, late spring snowstorm in northern Idaho, shuttering...
Kevin Sterne Contest Winner My nephew takes pictures of dead animals with a disposable camera. My sister said this might be an issue when she asked me to watch him for the weekend. “It’s...
49.2 Cover Art by RACHEL LINN FICTIONDormant by STACIE DENETSOSIEIt’s a Phase by KEVIN STERNE, Contest WinnerThe Shape of Grief by ALYSSA QUINNVirginia Is Not Your Home by JOCELYN JOHNSONThe...
Judge: Jennifer Sinor Deadline: March 15, 2020, at 11:59 pm Prize: $500 and publication in phoebe 49.2 (online issue) Entry Fee: $6 Submission Size: 1 piece per submission, up to 5,000 words...
Judge: Belle Boggs Deadline: March 15, 2020, at 11:59 pm Prize: $500 and publication in phoebe 49.2 (online issue) Entry Fee: $6 Submission Size: 1 piece per submission, up to 5,000 words Belle...
Judge: Thea Brown Deadline: March 15, 2020, at 11:59 pm Prize: $500 and publication in phoebe 49.2 (online issue) Entry Fee: $6 Submission Size: 3 to 5 poems per submission, totaling no more than...
Cover Art by BILL WOLAK FICTION Bhuka by VANDANA KHANNA Last Days of Men by CATE MCGOWAN In a Religion Where God is a Horse by DIANA HURLBURT Hold On, Just So by SHELLEY WOOD Air People by LESLIE...