spring 2019
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Against All Odds
Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Terrigenous
Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Magnetic Resonance
Lisa Mulrooney
Six Thousand Dollars
Cole Depuy
Sophocles
Martin Kippenberger's Bicycle
Charles Kell
I Am Allowed to Break Up With You Amy Kenny
When the Time Comes
Soothing
Cameron Morse
Across This Body First Generation The Wall Jeni De La O
orange socks
there are bad men at the top
Kate LaDew
Sixteen Weeks in the Caribbean Apartment Laura McGavin
Tensions
Orange Bottles
Sean Singer
Catastrophe that Nearly Brought Down a Plane
Sabyasachi Nag


Orange Bottles
Today in the taxi an elderly man got out and left his pills. I hesitated and called for him, but he didn’t hear.
Imagining his stroke in the building’s lobby, or a cancer eating his liver in the elevator, I left the car and chased him down.
I was the copper snake on a bed of ropes. Then I remembered the Midrash said When we do good, we must do it joyfully.