Volume 1, Issue 10 (Summer/Fall 2016)
NOVELLA
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"She dreamed an endless, labyrinthine dream where shadows stretched over the abyss, where vivid colors sank into her skin, where the memories of the entire world were contained in a single drop of water that trickled down to the bottom of a forgotten riverbed. She dreamed because the liquid images were all she had left, all she could grasp with any certainty. Corrosive, dry years—along with too many days peering at the sun with her blue eyes—left her blind. Her vision had disappeared in gradual phases, like the moon, until the sliver of light finally faded and never returned. Muscles followed soon after, evaporated and useless in the perpetual drought of old age."
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NOVEL EXCERPT
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"Mame Lamkin’s husband had wandered out to the forest’s edge past the animals. The year that had passed between his murder and the moment of the old man’s flight had not seemed to change him at all save for the wispy thinness of a dead-self in limbo that had replaced the manly flesh in which he had once lived. He swayed against the wind current, looking down on his mangled midsection in agonized translucence. His eyes hung down, no longer looking for the vigilantes who had dismembered him, nor his lily-White lover who had sat in her house and chewed her nails—tellingly—while the buzzards plucked at the Black flesh to which she’d once clung. He sensed the old man, and lifted his empty, invisible eye sockets to the moon. The old man moved beyond the ghost and his sorrow."
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POETRY
"A sticker for another sticker became
a passion for a drawer for trash.
Recycling happens on the tip
of my fingers where I still feel
the fuzzy caterpillars, the glossy
fairies. My two hands
curl when in danger, guarding..."
a passion for a drawer for trash.
Recycling happens on the tip
of my fingers where I still feel
the fuzzy caterpillars, the glossy
fairies. My two hands
curl when in danger, guarding..."
POETRY
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"...farmed resistance
mind field dropping calms pensive offensive weapons of mass construction" |
Customized illustrations for all published pieces are provided by Evgenia Barsheva.