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Double Incision Diary
by Jendi Reiter
On the afternoon I come home from surgery, I converse with a giant snake.
On White Violence, Black Survival and Learning to Shoot
by Kim McLarin
In truth I’m reluctant to say what has brought me to this place on a bitter January morning; reluctant to tell a room full of white people why a progressive, NRA-hating, middle-aged Black woman has decided, this late in life, to get a gun.
Love Poem for Those Thinking of Leaving This World
by Marissa Glover
Your parents lied when they said you could be / anything you wanted when you grow up.
The Interview
by Emily Rinkema
I’m ten minutes late to the interview to be my mother’s daughter. I’m confident, as her actual daughter, her only child, that I’ll have a leg up.
Kid Disappeared
by Jessica Jo Staricka
We didn’t wear swimsuits because the water was supposed to be all gone, and who’d want to swim in dead-ten-year-old-kid soup anyway?
If You Didn’t Know, You’re Already There
by Tommy Dean
You used to cook for four, now after the kids have gone to college, and the divorce is finalized, and you and your husband, you keep forgetting to put the ex in front of this yoking title, have downgraded to shared-walled duplexes.
Détente
by Dawn Tasaka Steffler
Because the internet said, children who lose a parent to suicide are more likely to die from suicide.
Equinox
by B.A. Van Sise
The Torah says the pomegranate / is holy because it has 613 seeds, / same as the number of commandments
A Quarter North
by Justin Hunt
In a soiled envelope, a fistful of grain / I’d shoveled that summer
Old Folks
by Joanne Durham
We hold our tongues / when young women bemoan their first / gray hairs, we doze off to dream / mid-afternoons on worn, cushioned couches
It all began around a campfire…
Beautiful language
is meant to be heard as well as read, and in fact words were vocalized eons before they were ever committed to clay or parchment. Storytelling began around campfires. We seek prose and poetry that continue the tradition.
Contributor Spotlight:
You Are Leaving the American Sector
by Rebecca Foust
Open Contests
by Stephen Parrish, with the editors of The Lascaux Review
