fall 2017
Table of Contents
Return to Home Pagecold bright waves for sorrow leaf kotasek
What It Is About to Do Le Mouton Noir Dessa Bayrock
Ode to a Desiccated Olive (Love is easier the headless way) James Cagney
Unsolicited Relationship Advice Erin Kirsh
* (It was a lake, used to bodies :islands) * (Arm over arm you expect) Simon Perchik
Somebody Else's Heroes Small Change Jocko Benoit
Pamplemousse Dominique Bernier-Cormier
Ecstasy Like Water to Soften Leather Jasmine Sky
Limits New York Brian Jerrold Koester
Persuasion Freedom of Speech Emma Winsor Wood
Familiar Pianissimo Jennifer van Alstyne
The Travel Section Ghost Train Christopher Levenson
The Malice in My Footsteps Conyer Clayton
Rebelling Unrest Errata Dani Spinosa
Stereotypes like like i love you Andrew Warner
qualifications for your consideration Laura Yan
Limits
Kurt wasn’t two yet
and I wasn’t six
when Mom put him
in a drycleaner’s plastic bag
and left him on the floor.
The boy who never sat still
sat still, smiling.
I’m no hero, but
I crawled in
and we sat together
while I kept the bag open.
Mom came roaring at us,
but blood wouldn’t have looked
like an accident.