In this issue, it is an honor and delight to feature new poems from Faye Kicknosway, who was called “a marvelous creator of new mythologies, new moods, new metamorphoses” by Anais Nin. We also have four fabulous pieces of fiction from Nora Kipnis, Brandon Barrett, Beatriz Seelaender, and Christopher Cervelloni. Each story, in its own…
New Poems Faye Kicknosway The Cheer Knocked Out of It I’m about to wrap myself not in a book but in—one after the other—movies— a form of cataract— of Mother Sereda washing all the color out my mood elevated from scabrous to chloroformed. Technicolor, black and white— sanitized by repetition— for example: Billie Holliday gets…
A Private Rebellion Christopher Cervelloni Three years into the rebellion and two years into our marriage, Thomas was shot in the head. A quick death, they said. A pleasant way to die, given the circumstances. The coroner—just a rebel army medic too old to fight—said the same thing when I went to claim the body….
Larry’s Left Hand Beatriz Seelaender Ever since Larry died, I’ve been watching things from the corners. The world’s a touch out of view; or maybe it is my eyes that are wrong and out of frame. I suppose everyone here wants to throw me away, but keeps hoping someone else will do it. Because I’m…
Imaginary Solutions Brandon Barrett Two fifteen-year-old boys in the room, one living and one dead. Edward—alive—considers the moment. He drags Albert—dead—away from the desk so he might sit comfortably and reflect. Nothing but a travesty that such a singular instant should be swept out into the whole of it, overwhelmed by the span of time…
