Issue 36: Winter 2017
Fiction
Suture
Imagine it’s you facing the loss of the still-ripening cherries between your legs.
Poetry
Two Poems
The trees bow with dead lemons.
Essays
Toasting the Apocalypse
It is barely five in the morning, and I am at the Fredericton airport.
On Invidious Comparisons, and Thoughts About “Home”
The prospect of reflecting upon the differences between living in Canada and living in the United States as a way of thinking about thoughts of “home” is daunting to me now in ways that I could not have imagined before having moved from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Lewisburg, Pennsylvania in August 2013.
Cupcake
I angled my body so I could write on the board and still see my students, as we had been taught in training.
Interviews
Telling the Untold: An Interview with Vanessa Hua
In my fiction and my nonfiction, I’ve always been driven by this idea of the untold story, of really trying to understand a person’s motivations, the circumstances behind his or her actions.
Reviews
Every Possible Problem in the World: A Review of The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
Allow me to present a woman at a window, buffing her nails, her blue blouse gathered softly around her hips, hair set in pleasing curls, loose yet defined.
Through the Layers: A Review of Digsite by Owain Nicholson and If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You by Adèle Barclay
There are many ways to examine our collective past.
Radical Apathy: A Review of Don’t Be Interesting by Jacob McArthur Mooney
Each turn of the page offers a rich sociological and even spiritual bent, asking its readers to envision themselves in a future both dystopian and real.
