"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant."
- Anne Bradstreet
- Anne Bradstreet
CELEBRATING 5 YEARS AS A LITERARY JOURNAL & TEN YEARS AS A SMALL PRESS
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MARCH
NONFICTION & PROSE POETRY
TWENTY-FOUR TOWERS ON THE BEACH
KATHARYN HOWD MACHAN
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I was earliest, I thought, light still hidden behind pale dunes held by hard grass and wind pushing wide-sky clouds across the rippled pearl of moon.
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LAVENDER
DOUG VAN HOOSER
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Cotswold, that area in England where the villages define cute, quaint, and idyllic, and roads are a lane with passing nooks, a farmer turned entrepreneur plants his acres to crest in a wave of undulating lavender.
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DOUG VAN HOOSER
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Cotswold, that area in England where the villages define cute, quaint, and idyllic, and roads are a lane with passing nooks, a farmer turned entrepreneur plants his acres to crest in a wave of undulating lavender.
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BRUSH YOUR TEETH
ANNA WAGNER
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Girl Number One still sings in the shower. She loves ballet. She covers up her tummy with baggy t-shirts, and she refuses to wear skin-tight leotards like everyone else in her class. She asks her mother why her thumbs don’t touch when she wraps her hands around her thighs. When she is hungry, she brushes her teeth.
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ANNA WAGNER
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Girl Number One still sings in the shower. She loves ballet. She covers up her tummy with baggy t-shirts, and she refuses to wear skin-tight leotards like everyone else in her class. She asks her mother why her thumbs don’t touch when she wraps her hands around her thighs. When she is hungry, she brushes her teeth.
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FOR ROSE, WHOM EVERYONE ELSE CALLS TELIA
ALLISON DARCY
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I am learning, still, about kingdoms. I am learning about differences and things I thought I had, about accusations,
middle names, the reasons to keep things private.
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ALLISON DARCY
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I am learning, still, about kingdoms. I am learning about differences and things I thought I had, about accusations,
middle names, the reasons to keep things private.
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ICARUS WITH ALUMINUM WINGS
ANDREA BIANCHI
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At the end of the moon’s current journey around the earth, the man who did not fall in love with me here
in our hometown will rise up and circle half the globe on his way to a new life in a different town.
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ANDREA BIANCHI
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At the end of the moon’s current journey around the earth, the man who did not fall in love with me here
in our hometown will rise up and circle half the globe on his way to a new life in a different town.
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MARCH
FICTION
(LITERARY FICTION)
WINGS
LOIS RUSKAI MELINA
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By then she knew that when she was scared she invented stories: The red maple in the front yard would fall when the wind came from the north. The red-tailed hawk roosting in the fir tree would snatch the cat. The acetone-soaked rags would ignite, and the easel and the canvasses and the brushes would flame red ...
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(WOODS FICTION)
LAST LIGHT
KATHLEEN GULER
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Well, old girl, I knew you’d be awaitin’ for me here, my favorite spot on the cabin porch in the evenin’. Best place to get in out of the rain.
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(DARK FICTION)
PASSAGE
LAWRENCE CADY
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Though the lake teams with fish and the fields are replete with grains, peppers, and legumes,
the community hasn’t seen a single newborn in more than a decade.
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PASSAGE
LAWRENCE CADY
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Though the lake teams with fish and the fields are replete with grains, peppers, and legumes,
the community hasn’t seen a single newborn in more than a decade.
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MARCH HIGHLIGHTED CONTRIBUTORS:
Andrea Bianchi is a legal assistant in Chicago, where she is pursuing a creative writing certificate at Northwestern University. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Wheaton College. Her writing has previously appeared in the Chicago Tribune and on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
Lawrence Cady's short stories have appeared in Other Voices, The Literary Review, Natural Bridge, Portland Review, South 85 Journal, Roanoke Review, among others. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and Portland State University, Lawrence serves as managing editor for the peer-reviewed science journal Astrobiology (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.).
Allison Darcy is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer and seeker currently at work on her MFA in Fiction at North Carolina State University. She is grateful to have had stories, essays, and poems in such publications as Tishman Review, Jewish Currents, Nat. Brut, and Poetica Magazine. She can be found at allisondarcywrites.com and occasionally tweets @_allisondarcy.
Kathleen Guler is the author of four historical novels including A Land Beyond Ravens, which won the 2010 Colorado Book Award and the 2010 National Indie Excellence Award, both in the historical fiction category. Kathleen has also published numerous articles, essays, short stories, reviews, and poems. She is currently working on a fifth novel consisting of three interconnected stories, each set in a different time period. The author lives in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
Katharyn Howd Machan, author of 38 collections of poetry (most recently What the Piper Promised, winner of the 2018 New Alexandria Press chapbook competition), has lived in Ithaca, New York since 1975 and, now as a full professor, has taught Writing at Ithaca College since 1977. After many years of coordinating the Ithaca Community Poets and directing the Feminist Women’s Writing Workshops, Inc., she was selected to be Tompkins County’s first poet laureate. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies, and textbooks, and she has edited three thematic anthologies, most recently one honoring Adrienne Rich.
Lois Melina's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Colorado Review, 2016 Best of the Net Anthology, Chattahoochee Review, Entropy, and others. My essay, “The Grammar of Untold Stories,” was a Notable work in Best American Essays, 2018. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she participates in the Corporeal Writing community founded by Lidia Yuknavitch and The Guttery.
Doug Van Hooser's poetry has appeared in Chariton Review, Split Rock Review, Manhattanville Review, and Poetry Quarterly among other publications. His fiction can be found in Red Earth Review, Crack the Spine, and Light and Dark. Doug is a playwright active at Three Cat Productions and Chicago Dramatists Theatre.
Anna Wagner is a student at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is studying creative writing and mathematics with a concentration in computational science. She works as a bookseller for Barnes & Noble, a copy editor for the Oracle, and a calculus tutor. This is her first publication, and she is currently working on a chapbook.
