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Issue 41: Spring 2018
Fiction
Poetry
Essays
Interviews
Reviews
Fiction
Hot Pink
By Kimberly Nichols
It started with a middle stripe of polish on her perfect big toe. Hot pink.
Subject: Sexy Girl Clean House
By Kathryn Lipari
Now here’s her idiot brother Kostya pounding on the café window like she’s keeping him waiting.
Emissaries
By Youssef Rakha
The first portent was erotic.
Poetry
By Meghan Bell
Men Explain (or: An Incomplete List of Things Guys Have Said to Me Since Puberty)
But how can I trust you, when you let / someone kiss you when you were single / and drunk and didn’t want to kiss?
Confirmation Bias
By Ivanna Baranova
Obits
By T Liem
Water
By Kathryn Mockler
Lily of Quito
By Imran Khan
How To Fold A Paper Crane
By Genevieve DeGuzman
Songs To Sing To An Estranged Lover While Secretly Pregnant
By Damian Rogers
Acid Trip in a Portapotty
By Aaron Kreuter
No Place for a Heart
By Nancy Lee
Wrong Number
By Heather Christle
Subaruminant
By Dominique Bernier-Cormier
Essays
The House Concert
By Gillian Turnbull
Inside, this house is like so many other Calgary homes.
Interviews
“Why not just kindness?”: An Interview with Joey Comeau
By David Nilsen
Joey Comeau is the author of four novels and the web comic A Softer World.
“The Atlantic is Full of Ghosts”: An Interview with Alexandra Lucas Coelho
By Maria Meindl
I first learned of Alexandra Coelho’s work at a panel discussion she was on, called “Literature Under Authoritarianism.”
Reviews
Salt and Wounds: A Review of Divya Victor’s
Kith
By Eric Schmaltz
Discomfort is a fitting affect to describe Divya Victor’s poetry. I
A Life Parallel: A Review of Sina Queyras’s
My Ariel
By Kasia van Schaik
"Judging your mother is like throwing a boomerang.”
Still Life: A Review of Nick Twemlow’s
Attributed to the Harrow Painter
By Nathan Mader
Nick Twemlow was born in New Zealand, raised in Topeka, Kansas, and currently teaches at Coe College in Iowa City, Iowa, where he now lives.
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