Issue 28 | Spring 2023

Big Tragedies, Little Tragedies

David Wojciechowski

after Cabaret, dir. M. Kijowicz, 1954

The candlemaker has a secret. He walks it through the darkness. He places it on the ground. Runs away from it. Comes back to it. Let’s a truck try to run over it. His secret is a pushpin that can end the world. His secret is a hole in a fence. He rides his secret like a cannonball through the earth and creates thousands of tiny universes. He lights a candle in the ensuing darkness.

About the Author

David WojciechowskiDavid Wojciechowski is the author of Dreams I Never Told You & Letters I Never Sent (Gold Wake, 2017). His poems can be found in Bateau, HAD, Hobart, Rejection Letters, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. David is a freelance graphic designer and can be found at davidwojo.com and on Twitter @MrWojoRising.

Issue 28 Cover

Prose

Excerpt from Marriage Marina Mariasch, translated by Ellen Jones

Torch Song of Myself Dale Peck

The House Nikki Barnhart

Excerpt from Fishflies: the Men of the Riverhouse Marream Krollos

The Chinkhoswe J.G. Jesman

Tijuana Victoria Ballesteros

Agónico Marcial, 1960 - 1994 Israel Bonilla

Excerpt from Fieldwork Vilde Fastvold, translated by Wendy H. Gabrielsen

Reflections in a Window Cástulo Aceves, translated by Michael Langdon

The Waiting Dreamer Blue Neustifter

It Being Fall Matthew Roberson

Plans for a Project Bo Huston

Poetry

As Beautiful As It Is Evan Williams

every woman is a perfect gorgeous angel and every man is just some guy Sophie Bebeau

Big Tragedies, Little Tragedies & Listen to This David Wojciechowski

A Sudden Set of Stairs & Buy the Buoy Evan Nicholls

Hyde Lake, Memphis Ellis Elliott

Cover Art

A Different Recollection Than Yours Edward Lee

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