Issue 36: Winter 2017

Fiction

Suture

Imagine it’s you facing the loss of the still-ripening cherries between your legs.

Body and Heart

The Man Who Wouldn’t Leave the Park

Big Spoon

Poetry

Two Poems

The trees bow with dead lemons.

Two Poems

The Saturn and Sphinx Moths of the Upper Midwest

the little punks have always counted

Happy Little Nobody

Two Poems

Four Poems

Two Poems

True Histories of the Animal Kingdom, or, Animals I know nothing about

Aural

Parade for Two

Revision

Because When I Translate Middle English I Always Assume That Bread Is The Body Of Christ

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.