Issue 14

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Contents

The Common Statement” by Jennifer Acker

Fiction

The Sky in Ohio” by Michael Byers

Into Air” by Kenan Orhan

Uncollected Territories” by Kirstin Allio

The Interior” by Adam Padgett

You’re the Sweetest One” by LaShonda Katrice Barnett

Excerpt from A Loving, Faithful Animal by Josephine Rowe

Essays

The Tao of Sunbathing” by Megan Mayhew Bergman

Decriminalization: A Love Story” by Susana Ferreira

Vanishing Point” by Anya Ventura

The Town with the Golden Future” by Will Preston

Poetry

This Morning I Miss Such Devotion” by Vievee Francis

Fayum Portrait” by James Hoch

The Lifesaver” by L. S. Klatt

The Children’s Wing” by Maria Terrone

New Wave: Post Op” by Maria Terrone

Waiting On Results” by Nicholas Friedman

Repeat” by John Freeman

Mons of Luke Al Dente” by Colin Channer

From Books and Correspondences A Short History of Decay, E. M. Cioran” by Daniel Lawless

Swallowtail” by Daniel Tobin

In the Natural World” by Lawrence Raab

An Education” by Lawrence Raab

The Syrophoenician Woman” by Mariam Williams

Kul” by Fatimah Asghar

On My Problems” by Loren Goodman

Poem” by Loren Goodman

Some Do” by Matt Salyer

Corey” by Mik Awake

Graffito Beholds a Sculpted Dionysus Head” by Steve Barbaro

First Elegy” by Alberto de Lacerda (translated by Scott Laughlin)

Loss and its Antonym” by Alison Prine

The Old City” by Nausheen Eusuf

Art

Series of Thought” by Michael Mazur and Betsey Garand

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