manifesto for the bones of a blue whale suspended from the ceiling

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...

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Recrudescence

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...

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It’s a Phase

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...

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Gravedigger

From Issue 7.3 Ed Lynskey Call me a gravedigger.By night I shovel themoist moments awaytill the empty depthcan hold my heart, my injured heart.Still she lies like a smirking shadowin the bottom of...

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To Grow by Subtraction (Maddie’s Salvage)

From Issue 29.2 Marilyn F. Moriarty The only excess on Inishmore was in the people — in their talking, in their music — and last night what music there was with noisy old ballads, raucous...

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49.2

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...

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Jennifer Sinor Judges 2020 Nonfiction Contest

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...

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Belle Boggs Judges 2020 Fiction Contest

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...

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Thea Brown Judges 2020 Greg Grummer Poetry Contest

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...

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49.1

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...

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