Category: Online Issue Pieces

All the Dust Falling

Abigail Ham 2023 Spring Nonfiction Contest Winner  I Fight and flight are the typical human reactions to threat, but they’re not the only possibilities. Children in general can’t fight or...

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Parrot

Maeve Barry 2023 Spring Fiction Contest Winner Janet lies in the bathtub with the phone shouldered to her ear. In a long lace dress with its back zipper open. It sags off her chest. She sits in her...

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The Plague of Flies

Julie Marie Wade Maybe it starts here: bright swatch of color behind the closet door, yellow as a fisherman’s slicker. The swatter, they called it, and you thought about it even when you weren’t...

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On a Desert Planet

Robin Babb “Utopia is uninhabitable. As soon as we reach it, it ceases to be utopia. As evidence of this sad but ineluctable fact, may I point out that we in this room, here and now, are inhabiting...

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Elizabeth Schoonmaker

“Harvest Moon” “Hot Pink” “Fpainting” Elizabeth Schoonmaker ELIZABETH SCHOONMAKER is a multidisciplinary artist and lives in the Town of Plainfield in Upstate N.Y. Through her...

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The Rowan Berries of Winter

Phillip Crymble ——— for Robert Lowell   At Roosevelt, the orderlies were forced to break your wrists — the large brown-paper parcel  that you clutched against your breastbone heldin place...

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Aluu Prosper

“Stern” “Can you feel our pain” “Envisage” “Critical” “Autopilot” Aluu Prosper Born and raised in Nigeria, West Africa, PROSPER ALUU makes figurative and expressive...

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I am Creating a New Drug

J.C. Rodriguez By rolling together gray hairs, capers, nettles, & tuna in a page ripped from an old tabloid. A tube seared into existence from burnt dust & browned butter. It’s smokable,...

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Kenneth Ricci

“There is a beauty that remains” “Every woman deserves” Kenneth Ricci KENNETH RICCI is a self-taught NYC artist who has been creating collages for the past seven years.  In that time his...

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clove hitch

p. hodges adams2023 Greg Gummer Prize Runner-Up come hear me, in my twenty-fifth yeari stopped having sex with gender i meanmy lovers all favored the vestibule of language outside the party i mean i...

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