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Fall 2022

Issue 27

Issue twenty-seven invites you to attend a chimeric gathering of wanders, misfits, rebels, playboys, and survivors.

Featuring new short fiction, poetry, CNF, translations, and art from Robert Glück, Julia Kohli (translated by Rob Myatt), Jasleena Grewal, Solomon Samson, Dominic Blewett, Laurie Stone, Stacey Levine, Nina Schuyler, James Warner, Carla Bessa (translated by Elton Uliana), Alvin Lu, Lorelei Bacht, Beatriz Rocha (translated by Grant Schutzman), Réka Nyitrai, David C. Hall, Rolla Barraq (translated by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp), Eva-Maria Sher, Cameron Morse, and Richard Hanus.

Dirk

Julia Kohli
Translated by Rob Myatt

“Attending gender studies seminars had become the new trend in the men’s forums he frequented for fun on an occasional, meaning daily, basis: a bit of reporting back and swapping notes, talking about the different types of ugliness among women.”

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Panthera onca

Jasleena Grewal

“A jaguar, like a child, indicates the health of a system. It is a keystone. In this pulse place—its body estuarine, current with blood—a jaguar plays like a cat and yolks her hunts.”

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The Border

Solomon Samson

“For a while, she stares at him as if he belongs to a race once thought extinct. This is not part of her job. She is just trying to go the extra mile. But the look on the boy’s face tells her that it is not time to slow down.”

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Tikibik

Dominic Blewett

“Wildly in love, we did not pause to consider failure. Ina was ready to return home and I for a new adventure. We moved quickly, recklessly, uprooting our lives and flinging them across the globe.”

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April I

Réka Nyitrai

“It seems that the bull-headed man managed to shoot my bird. I didn’t hear the gunshot but I felt the bird’s fall.”

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April II

Réka Nyitrai

“Deadheaded dandelions and your seed flowing. This is oblivion: bliss not yet congealed and my dummy heart pooling bundles of hope to be sold at a reduced price.”

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Mistake or Accident

Laurie Stone

“I gave a man I loved a mug, a silk shirt, and a copy of Baudelaire. In time he became better at sex. After he left me, I saw him at a memorial service and wondered if he still had the shirt, the mug, the copy of Baudelaire.”

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Excerpt from Mice 1961

Stacey Levine

“Sherrie Gagel pushed through the throng toward the head branch librarian, declaring with a patchy pant: ‘May I ask you something Miss Stroke? I’ve wanted to for ages.’”

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In this movie

David C. Hall

“In this movie God is made of aluminum foil,
computer screens and old cell phones,
beer cans and dead batteries
with eyes of Christmas tree lights”

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Spot

Rolla Barraqz
Translated by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp

“Hold the camera steady
zoom in
and if you want to go further 
choose a different angle.”

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The Cathedral of Desire

Nina Schuyler

“Before she taped closed the box of Floor Polish Shine, she slid in her note, I miss watermelon. And with the bottle of Mold Killer, I miss pink tulips.
The notes didn’t harm anyone. Little scraps of paper, a message that there was more to the Cathedral of Desire than what met the eye.”

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The Gorge

James Warner

“I remember buying Guy Dieppe’s novel—at a bookstall beside the Seine, one spring afternoon—more clearly than I recall my first reading of it. It included some enjoyable phrases, which I now forget, but made no impression otherwise.”

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In This Case, He Killed an Innocent Person

Carla Bessa
Translated by Elton Uliana

A renowned businessman was arrested unexpectedly early this Friday, after an accident in which he ran over and killed a workman in the South Zone of Rio. According to the chief of police, the driver will be charged with manslaughter (where there is no intention of killing) and drunk driving.

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Surf

Cameron Morse

Breath is soft, surf
from a distant island, before day-
break, another day breaks
upon you. Your day sees you

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A Chinese Temple in California

Alvin Lu

Did the workmen who received the pieces carried by cart and mule know what they were doing? There would be, and still are, strict rules for feng shui. Did the delivery come with instructions? Or did the builders just go by their infallible memories?

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Image 001

Richard Hanus

Image 001 is a 20×30” oil completed eight to ten years ago. It reminds the artist of an Eastern European village, and though he likes the pic very much, he’s not done anything like it before or since.

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