Issue No. 14
Summer 2016
A quarterly magazine of original works
by artists & writers
Art!
Judith Schaechter, The Stigma of Beauty, The Stain of Glass
Poetry!
Simon Perchik, [There is skin even the sky] and [Except for the new suit]
∗Kenzie Allen, Light Pollution and Letters I Don’t Send #4
Triin Paja, Quasar
∗Christian Anton Gerard, Aubade in Afternoon
∗Robert E. Heald, River Rising
Lucian Mattison, Homunculus
∗Meggie Royer, Graduation Day
Harmony Button, [A brother is a cistern and a bucket with a rope]
∗Jon Riccio, Insular
Ted Lardner, How to Jump From a Moving Car
Alexis Rhone Fancher, June Fairchild Isn’t Dead
∗Ushshi Rahman, Lee the Baptist
John Timpane, A Cricket in Washington Square Park
Constance Campana, Road Trip, 1957
Kevin Casey, Ripples, 1978
Matthew Gellman, Trip
John Harvey, Angels Have Cordoned Off Sections of Mount Sinai
Short Stories!
∗Meg Pendoley, Birch Waters
Kim Magowan, Squirrel Beach
Melissa Goode, The Whole Damn Lovely Thing
∗Kea Edwards, Enchantment!
∗Matthew DiPaoli, A Comedy in One Act
∗Harley Lethalm, On playing an old Jackson guitar…
Flash!
Kathleen Rooney, Hommage à Mack Sennett
Doug Ramspeck, Consolations
∗Jason Christian, Teaching
∗Marya Zilberberg, Cutting Corners
∗Daniel Aristi, Torcida / Askew
∗Evan Anderson, In the Beginning Was the End
Robert Wexelblatt, The End of War
Ray Scanlon, Atlantic Dystopia
Creative Nonfiction!
Lynn Marie Houston, Rabbit Punch
∗Lisa Romeo, Break A Leg
Gretchen Clark, Destroyer
Peter Tiernan, Memorial
Tracy Jones, On Peter Adamyan’s “Blackface Barbie Minstrel Show”
Features
Cover art: detail from “The Birth of Eve” by Judith Schaechter