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Unnecessary Villanelle Rob Thomas
photography
- The New York Photographs Michael Ernest Sweet
graphic fiction
- Crimefighter Jed Alexander
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- Sunday in the City Erika Dreifus
- Gently Used Melissa Kuipers
- The Thug Chris Smith
- Bedtime in Darfur Natalie Willett
poetry
- The Beach Joshua Levy
- Re: Report to the Council, cc The Huffer Foundation et al. David McGimpsey
- These Walls Mark McGuire-Schwartz
- Traces Autumn Richardson
- Blowers blow the leaf cash around Ryan Ruddick
- AND OUR DEAD ARE LINED UP ALL THE WAY INTO THE FUTURE K.V. Skene
- Five things you didn’t know about water Serene Vannoy
- The Multitude Translated by Siobhan Marie Anderson
Author: Emile Verhaeren (Excerpt "La Foule" from "Les visages de la vie", Edmond Deman, 1899)
fiction
- Talking On the Wall Ami Sands Brodoff
- The Cat Translated by Peter McCambridge
Author: Eric Dupont ("Bestiaire", published by Marchand de feuilles, 2008) - When Eyes Yellow Gregory Koop
- Alex Willow Partington
- The Window by the Train Isabelle Schumacher
- The Comeback Translated by Susan Lemprière
Author: Sébastien Roldan ["La remontée", Winner of the 2009 Short Story Contest held by XYZ. La revue de la nouvelle, published in issue no. 99 (fall 2009).]
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Benjy’s education
Benjamin Hackman
This is the second installment in a series of 11 audio poems collectively known as “The Benjy Poems,” written and directed by Benjamin Hackman, and produced and engineered by Craig Saltz. [Read more...]
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Editor’s note
We’re extremely proud to bring you yet another great issue of poetry, fiction, photography, graphic fiction, creative nonfiction, audio stories, and our carte blanche Q&A, as we come to the end of our eighth year of publishing. [Read more...]
fiction
Talking On the Wall
Ami Sands Brodoff
Everybody tells Avelia that Carmen is a beauty. That her Mami has a body that turns Monday into Saturday, eyes that burn black and bright. [Read more...]
poetry
Five things you didn’t know about water
Serene Vannoy
The surface tension in a drop of water is enough
to hold a world in,
if the world is small enough
A cubic meter of salt water contains five hundred million tears
and tears are what you are made of — salt and water and pain and relief
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nonfiction
Sunday in the City
Erika Dreifus
So much blood. If you’d attended medical school, like so many of your Ivy League friends, you’d know that the head bleeds profusely. You’d understand that this unstoppable liquid staining your blue fleece jacket and soaking your fingers as they pull and press together the edges of your wound isn’t necessarily catastrophic. But for now, you are ignorant. Something from a long-ago first-aid class tells you that you should sit, or maybe even lie down on the chilly ground, to keep the blood from pumping down as well as out from your head.
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