Volume 11
Fiction
Matt Bender - You’re a Ghost in a Meatball on a Rock in a Vast and Empty Universe. Just Fucking Go For It Already.
(Excerpted. 3rd-place winner of the 2024 Beautiful Pause Prize for fiction)
Charles Byrne - The Dead | The Year | Kansas City
Barlow Crassmont - The Iconoclastic Rubble
Patrick Doerksen - Nowhere in the Universe
Terence Patrick Hughes - As the Night the Day
Melissa Loftus - Operant Conditioning
Rene Maori - The City That Never Sleeps (& Russian translation)
Pia Quintano - The River
Kaylie Saidin - Mayflower
non-fiction
John W. Ballantine - Get Thee to a Shrink
Sarah Harley - The Rest
Jamie Simons - The Clergy Collar Vodka Run
Jacob Taylor - Vulnerability Index: Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool
Skylar Lynn Tibbetts - First Aid
Poetry
Carol Everett Adams - Why Mall Shootings Happen | Your Arm and I Went to Kitt Peak National Observatory
Mariam Ahmed - current sea
f. elliot - When the Waffle House was Closed
Jason Fraley - Flammable Dream | Dream Delayed by Roadwork
Gerburg Garmann - Dementia
Ash Goedker - Origin Story | Ode to Momma | Erasure: My Brother’s Apology
Dean Hel - A list of accomplishments of the year | The Ring | Inheritance | What’s Left
Zama Madinana - karibu
Larissa Martins - I’m a Busy Woman | Nights Na Rocinha | Eve’s Accomplice
Alise Versella - There’s a Special Kind of Sadness that Seems to Come with Spring
Featured Throwback
Albrecht Dürer - Pillow Studies, 1493
Featured Young artists (Artists & writers 18 and Under)
Renee Shi - Naturally Smart - Nonfiction
Toluwaleyi Meadows - Courage | Why the Drunkard Likes to Drink - Fiction
Anita Pan - Death in the Parlour | Great Leaps Backward - Fiction
Art
Mark Blickley - Frog Concerto - Collage
Derritt Meyer - The Lightest Breath (Four works) - Paintings
Jamie Simons - Spooner Blows - Painting
Rachel Turney - Bossa Nova | The Santa Teresa Tram - Photographs
James Reade Venable - Nocturne in Covid Sharpe | Let’s Dance - Photographs (Cover)
MUSIC
Joshua Kepfer - Wreck | Grief
Gerburg Garmann - We’ll Be Alright | Groundhog’s Wedding March
To view individual pieces, select from the list above.
It’s always better in print.
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