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Spring 2019

  • Bill Barich

    I received a surprise invitation to a tryout camp at Ebbets Field.

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  • Richard Bausch

    “She was breakable, and I probably knew it from the start.”

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  • Tyree Daye

    I hold on to the shape of a star the way my aunts hold on to Jesus’s gown.

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  • Michael Croley

    A woman from the next table eyed him and he eyed her right back.

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  • Sharon Olds

    I am desperate to love myself, to tolerate myself, vanity is fine.

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  • Matthew Gellman

    All these barns with their busted spidery limbs strewn over the lupine.

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  • Charmaine Craig

    The human heart is far more intricate than any single term can describe.

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Spring 2019

Features

  • Trisha OrrCharlottesville Burning
  • Gregory OrrCharlottesville Burning

Fiction

  • Susan MinotBoston Common at Twilight
  • Joyce Carol OatesThe Rescue

Nonfiction

  • Rick BassFifteen Dogs
  • Ann BeattieFifteen Ways to Avoid Gardening
  • Charmaine CraigDon’t Beat My Sister
  • Kate SmallLosing My Mother

iStories

  • Robert KinerkGo-Go
  • Mary MorrissyPhone Cards

Narrative Nights

  • Narrative Night San Francisco 2019

Readers' Narratives

  • Nancy GendimenicoHong Kong

Narrative 10

  • Ocean Vuong

Poetry

  • Ian Spencer Bell
  • Tyree Daye
  • Carlina Duan
  • Matthew Gellman
  • Carlie Hoffman
  • Sharon Olds
  • Deborah Paredez
  • Austin Smith

iPoems

  • Christopher WarnerOld-Time Religion

Narrative Outloud

  • John BalabanCa Dao

Narrative By Hand

  • William Butler Yeats

Cartoons

  • Various ArtistsCartoon Art Volume 2019-04
  • Various ArtistsCartoon Art Volume 2019-05
  • Various ArtistsCartoon Art Volume 2019-06
  • Various ArtistsCartoon Art Volume 2019-07

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