Zach Wyner is a writer and educator who works with incarcerated youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. His debut novel, What We Never Had, was published by Rare Bird Books in 2016. He is a contributor to The Good Men Project, Curly Red Stories, Unbroken Journal,...
Issue 17 features work by Laurie Stone, John Better Armella (translated by George Bert Henson), Elisabeth Sheffield, M.C. Zendejas, Stephanie Dickinson, Miriam Karpilov (translated by Jessica Kirzane), Nicole Mestre, Ihsan Abdel Quddous (translated by Nabeel M. Yaseen), Michael Agugom, Jason Hamilton, Curt Saltzman, Jillian McManemin, Bob Elmendorf, Geraldine Connolly, Diego Valeri (translated by Laura Valeri), Alex Rieser, Ulrike Almut Sandig (translated by Jari Niesner), Lily Hoang, and Zach Wyner. Cover art by Jonathan Hammer
By Zach Wyner
When I was a child in the 1980s, I vaguely understood some things and acutely understood others. I vaguely understood the big things that I was supposed to fear, like drugs, The Soviet Union, gang violence, and killer bees.