"I like starting projects in January. That's the best time to start something. It's so inward."
Carolyn Chute
Carolyn Chute
CELEBRATING 5 YEARS AS A LITERARY JOURNAL & TEN YEARS AS A SMALL PRESS
SEND US THE YUMMY STUFF, THE BEAUTIFUL AND SMART
AND MAYBE-A-LITTLE-SASSY STUFF
SEND US THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
SEND US THE YUMMY STUFF, THE BEAUTIFUL AND SMART
AND MAYBE-A-LITTLE-SASSY STUFF
SEND US THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
JANUARY
NONFICTION & PROSE POETRY
NEIGHBORS
LISA RENEE
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He brings me fresh fish from a poison lake, she brings brown canned peaches. They give me bottles of regifted liquor and buckets of flowers from unmanaged gardens. They march uninvited into my kitchen with brandy, excited about fascist developments. He burns chairs in his driveway and watches the blaze while nurturing the flame in his mouth. .
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THE DAUGHTER'S DICTIONARY
EMILY TOWNSEND
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Apopemptic, adj. At five in the morning, the Friday of move-in weekend, you woke me up and whispered, college is waiting for you. I said goodbye to my dog of nine years, my room of six years, and my mother of nineteen years after I was left alone in my dorm. I heard you sob in the suite bathroom and tried to ignore the redness stamped in your eyes when you hugged me goodbye. We’re only three hours apart, I said. You still had a kid at home. You were not an empty nest.
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EMILY TOWNSEND
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Apopemptic, adj. At five in the morning, the Friday of move-in weekend, you woke me up and whispered, college is waiting for you. I said goodbye to my dog of nine years, my room of six years, and my mother of nineteen years after I was left alone in my dorm. I heard you sob in the suite bathroom and tried to ignore the redness stamped in your eyes when you hugged me goodbye. We’re only three hours apart, I said. You still had a kid at home. You were not an empty nest.
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JANUARY
FICTION
(DARK FICTION)
I KNEW HER AS VEDA
ANDY BETZ
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Actually, her name is Vada Panourgias and she is as Goth as a girl could get.
Vada and I attended the MFA program at the local university and quickly became close friends.
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(LITERARY FICTION)
RITUALS
HANNAH MCSORLEY
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They will grow in age, in height, get their hearts broken by those they never expect. They will line up their blue-veined wrists, lay pulse against pulse, let their rhythms harmonize until calm settles in once again. They will point to the gulls, and say “doves,” take all that is dirty and weak and make it pure and strong. They will grow apart and then together, cut themselves into pieces and sew each other up, run their fingers over the scar in the other’s hand, and say, remember when we thought this gave our bond something it didn’t already have?
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JANUARY HIGHLIGHTED CONTRIBUTORS:
With degrees in physics and chemistry, Andy Betz has tutored and taught in excess of 30 years. His novel, short stories, and poems are works still defining his style. He lives in 1974, has been married for 26 years, and collects occupations (the current tally is 95).
Hannah McSorley is about to graduate from SUNY Geneseo in upstate NY with a degree in English literature. Her writing has previously been published in Crabfat Magazine and Gandy Dancer, and she has one story forthcoming from Likely Red Press.
Lisa Renee is a poet and essayist, and lives near a big lake in New York. You can find her writing at Exposition Review, The Hairpin, The Billfold, Medium, and Linden Avenue Literary Journal. She is managing editor of nonfiction at daCunha.
Emily Townsend is a graduate student in English at Stephen F. Austin State University. Her works have appeared in Superstition Review, cream city review, Santa Clara Review, Pacifica Literary Review and others. A Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2019 AWP Intro Journals Award nominee, she is currently working on a second collection of essays in Nacogdoches, Texas.
With degrees in physics and chemistry, Andy Betz has tutored and taught in excess of 30 years. His novel, short stories, and poems are works still defining his style. He lives in 1974, has been married for 26 years, and collects occupations (the current tally is 95).
Hannah McSorley is about to graduate from SUNY Geneseo in upstate NY with a degree in English literature. Her writing has previously been published in Crabfat Magazine and Gandy Dancer, and she has one story forthcoming from Likely Red Press.
Lisa Renee is a poet and essayist, and lives near a big lake in New York. You can find her writing at Exposition Review, The Hairpin, The Billfold, Medium, and Linden Avenue Literary Journal. She is managing editor of nonfiction at daCunha.
Emily Townsend is a graduate student in English at Stephen F. Austin State University. Her works have appeared in Superstition Review, cream city review, Santa Clara Review, Pacifica Literary Review and others. A Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2019 AWP Intro Journals Award nominee, she is currently working on a second collection of essays in Nacogdoches, Texas.
