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 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.
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
Basket Filler
Rubric
from: The Oyster Ann Pedone
Cover Art
After Time Arlene Tribbia