fall 2017
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Persuasion
Freedom of Speech
Emma Winsor Wood
qualifications
for your consideration
Laura Yan
Limits
New York
Brian Jerrold Koester
Ode to a Desiccated Olive
(Love is easier the headless way)
James Cagney
Unsolicited Relationship Advice
Erin Kirsh
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
Somebody Else's Heroes
Small Change
Jocko Benoit
cold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
Familiar
Pianissimo
Jennifer van Alstyne
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
The Malice in My Footsteps
Conyer Clayton


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.