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Winter 2021

  • J. D. Debris

    In other words, beachfronts like Bolaño’s and mine are Nowhere.

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  • Sara Houghteling

    He’s clear about his wishes: to die in this house, in his own bed.

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  • Soren Stockman

    He drowned under a different name, a fake name chiseled in German.

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  • Katy Gurin

    Her songs, her records—I entered them. I jumped in and out of myself.

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  • J. P. Grasser

    Oh, won’t you lie here darling whistlepigs, here, curled at my side?

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  • Edgar Allan Poe

    All these and security were within. Without was the “Red Death.”

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  • John Balaban

    The dead and alive who we will never see again but in dream or memory.

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Winter 2021

Fiction

  • Ann BeattieTelepathic Message in
    Time of Crisis
  • Sara HoughtelingThe Crossing Guard

Nonfiction

  • J. D. DebrisBeachfront

Classics

  • Edgar Allan PoeThe Masque of the Red Death

Graphic Stories

  • Jenny LesserSignaling

Readers' Narratives

  • Beatrice RaoMumbai

Poetry

  • John Balaban
  • Emma Binder
  • Kōan Anne Brink
  • Patrick James Errington
  • Rebecca Foust
  • April Goldman
  • J. P. Grasser
  • Katy Gurin
  • Kassy Lee
  • Soren Stockman

iPoems

  • John FreemanJanuary

Cartoons

  • Various ArtistsCartoon Art Volume 2020-12
  • Various ArtistsCartoon Art Volume 2021-01

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