issue ii
cover art by Claire Guo
Poetry
YUAN CHINGMING // 12 Heart Metaphors: a Chinglish Poem in Collocations
MARGARET KATHRYN WARREN // Muse invites me inside to watch her ink her own skin
MICHAEL BALDWIN // Grief
JOHN DORROH // Killing Science
MELANIE FIGG // Backstory, First Memory (Eve to Lilith)
LUCY ARNOLD // untitled
MONA MEHAS // Meditations on the Sound of Wind
SAMPURNA CHAKRABORTY // Blasphemy
DONNA FAULKNER // Shared Spaces
ALISON EASTLEY // The Intimacy of Bats
DANIEL NAAWENKANGUA ABUKURI // After The Mockingbirds
IRENA VERENE / Strawberry Stains
PROSE
JOE MICHAEL FEIST // Lily-white
MARK BLICKLEY // Sheep Dip
ROBERT RUNTÉ // Split Decision
CRAIG BORRI // Fiddler’s Green
JANET GOLDBERG // What Love Is
BETT BUTLER // 1964
MICHAEL SHAWYER // Mummy’s boy
JUSTIN ALCALA // The Last Stop
MARK KLINE // Did She
LINDA MARIA // Tarnishing
Nonfiction
SUSANN COKAL // Little Mermaids
ANTHONY J. MOHR // Risk
TERRY BARR// Dream Island Home
MARGARET PEARCE // THIS IS NOT QUITE A FAIRY STORY
MARTIN WILLIS // Disappearing maps