Issue 13

PLASTIC BREATH by ALFREDO ARCILESI

After seven days of intolerable confinement, Izzy decided that this foggy afternoon was the right time to free herself. And, if she could manage, Clara.             She had been testing her crippled body since the morning...

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JUNK MONEY by STEFAN EGGER

Larry awoke to the man with Tourette’s making his morning walk around the halfway house, rather complex. The man with Tourette’s lived in a different room and building from Larry that looked like a padded cell from...

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HE’S A MINOR, SO WHAT? by KATLYN MACIAS

I’m a female dog According to this minor,  At the edge of adulthood, Teenage disaster. Girls Are broken down to their  scientific term; female Cause that’s all they are To him. A biological mess Of pheromones and hormones. To...

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TALKING TO FORGET by THU NGUYEN

            Cordova, Alaska (unceded land of the Eyak)   There is no word for goodbye  in Athabascan, you tell me, because we never leave each other. Or is it because here  I haven’t once seen the sun  actually set, and you...

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A SURE THING by MARCO ETHERIDGE

The doctor’s black sedan had not yet disappeared up the drive when the household fell into a general uproar. Three generations of Beardsley women burst into tears and sank onto an enormous sofa. Behind the sofa, nine-year-old...

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HIS GOD by BRIANNA CHERRINGTON

I pray to his god and don’t wonder if he prays for me, too. I am not seeking devotions answered, I need what comes with believing: The comfort and reassurance that you have the capacity to love. I would cast a thumbworn agate...

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