Issue 32 | Spring 2025

Our latest issue fans the flames of righteousness as we teeter toward a smoke-crazed horizon. We are tracing the minutia of generations through room-sized replicas and reenactments. We are drying laundry on a patchwork of metal sheets. We are back on campus, on the prowl, clawing at mattresses, chasing ghosts and radiance, plagued by absentia. Above all, we are secure in our knowledge that every fact reigns absolute, even its opposite.

Chalk Talk

Chalk Talk

By Marcus Silcock

“The detective scans the tree. Jacaranda sticks to her sandals. Yes, you guessed it. It’s that time. The time of flowers. The fiesta of flowers.”

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I Don’t Like Anybody

I Don’t Like Anybody

By Kathryn Kulpa

“It’s August, Saturday, and we’re tired of summer. Watching Creature Double Feature on Channel 56. Me and Danny and Angie.”

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Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday

By Sarp Sozdinler

“I lift my mother’s urn high to show her the places she’d never seen inside the house when she was alive.”

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Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.

—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases

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The Longest Day of the Year

The Longest Day of the Year

By Jeff Harvey

“After watching The Gong Show, my younger sister and I enjoyed popsicles made from cherry Kool-Aid that were frozen in a plastic tray Mom received for hosting a Stanley Products home party where she spent twelve dollars on snacks and didn’t make any sales.”

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