Issue 31 | Fall 2024

Damn!

Steve Castro

A man climbing up a steep mountain wielding a Claymore with a wild boar as a guard dog would not be considered strange during an apocalypse. During an apocalypse, you can drag a dead body to the middle of the street right outside your home and people be like, “Damn, I understand completely,” as they proceed to undress the corpse. During an apocalypse, you can shoot down endangered birds of prey with arrows made of elephant bones, and people be like, “Damn, Dumbo flying so fast.”

About the Author

Steve CastroSteve Castro’s Conejo y Gallo was a finalist for the National Poetry Series competition (2024). He’s a Costa Rican surrealist whose poetry was most recently published in 32 Poems, Image, The Spectacle, Notre Dame Review, miCRo series: The Cincinnati Review, and is forthcoming in Laurel Review, diode, Bayou, and The Inflectionist Review.

Issue 31 Cover

Prose

Bloodsport: Excerpt from Demons of Eminence Joshua Escobar

Envy Adelheid Duvanel, translated by Tyler Schroeder

Overview Effect Tanya Žilinskas

When I Finally Eat the Cake Sumitra Singam

The Sofa Jean-Luc Raharimanana, translated by Tom Tulloh

Rate My Professor: Allen Ginsberg Arlene Tribbia

EVPs Captured in the Old Fort Addison Zeller

A Short Bob Mehdi M. Kashani

The Weight of Drowned Calla Lilies Katherine Elizabeth Seltzer

Omaha Jane Snyder

The Giraffe Charles O. Smith

Risky Sex Taro Williams

Poetry

Last Week The Sun Died Joanna Theiss

Untitled (Phrenology Box) Kirsten Kaschock

some gifted Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz

Damn! Steve Castro

Pishtaco Linda Wojtowick
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Rubric

from: The Oyster Ann Pedone

Cover Art

After Time Arlene Tribbia

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