fall 2017
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageFamiliar Pianissimo Jennifer van Alstyne
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
Ode to a Desiccated Olive (Love is easier the headless way) James Cagney
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
Somebody Else's Heroes Small Change Jocko Benoit
Persuasion Freedom of Speech Emma Winsor Wood
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
The Malice in My Footsteps Conyer Clayton
Unsolicited Relationship Advice Erin Kirsh
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
qualifications for your consideration Laura Yan
Limits New York Brian Jerrold Koester
Familiar
Sometimes I fill with guilt, heavy stomach
—hiding in this bar where smoke riddled chatter
keeps him from entering.
Gould’s love is too much, bittersweet
—love which overwhelms like hoppy beer,
a form of IPA kinship.
When Glenn asked me to be his brother, legally,
my heart froze to whisper,
I already have brothers.
But let us be friends.