Number 97

spring 2020

Finally here! Featuring the winner of the Crazyshorts! Short-Short Fiction Competition alongside outstanding stories, essays, and poems.

Featured In This Issue

Late Afternoon (Delight) Flight by Matthias Göritz

Translated by Mary Jo Bang | Poetry

Your Bullet and You

Sheldon Costa | Fiction

Spinning Stories

Bailey Cunningham | Crazyshorts!

Mrs. Satosi

Afabwaje Kurian | Fiction

After the Fire, Dressing

Jane Springer | Poetry

Hypothesis (II)

Josh English | Poetry

Morgantown, West Virginia

Amy M. Alvarez | Poetry

An Orchard Is a Forest We Broke

CJ Evans | Poetry

Litany (Easter)

Kasey Jueds | Poetry

How Do We Get to the Sun

Ryan Collins | Poetry

Boys Beware

Zak Salih | Fiction

Two Rooms

Leslie Adrienne Miller | Poetry

Algebra

Marilyn Abildskov | Essays

FICTION

Sheldon Costa, “Your Bullet and You”
Bailey Cunningham, “Spinning Stories”
Rebecca Morgan Frank, “Ten Percent Effort”
Afabwaje Kurian, “Mrs. Satosi”
Iheoma Nwachukwu, “To You Americans”
Zak Salih, “Boys Beware”
Sheila Sundar, “Deccan Basalt”

ESSAYS

Marilyn Abildskov, “Algebra”
W. Scott Olsen, “On Measuring Time”
Ira Sukrungruang, “Eulogy for My Father”

POETRY

Amy M. Alvarez, “Appalachia → LGA,” “Morgantown, West Virginia,” “Monongahela Means Falling”
Susanna Childress, “Rooted, They Grip Down and Begin to Awaken”
Ansley Clark, “Lineage of Power,” “Interior vs. Exterior”
Charlie Clark, “Devil Speculation,” “Devil’s Profession of Ignorance”
Ryan Collins, “The Dawn of Nothing,” “How Do We Get to the Sun”
Liz Countryman, “Leave”
Luciana Jazmín Coronado, translated by Allison A. deFreese “Dinner at Las Heras,”
Josh English, “Hypothesis (II),” “Lessons in Clairvoyance”
CJ Evans, “An Orchard Is a Forest We Broke”
Alice Friman, “With Due Respect,” “Mother’s Secret”
Matthias Göritz, translated by Mary Jo Bang “Able to Imitate,” “Late Afternoon (Delight) Flight,”
Naomi Guttman, “Drift”
Joseph Harms, “Coma,” “Solip Horrid”
Janice N. Harrington, “Botanical Illustration: Viola Odorata”
Kasey Jueds, “Litany (Easter),” “The Silo”
Elizabeth Langemak, “What Happens Next”
Jennie Malboeuf, “The Mirror of God Is Only Glass”
Sandra McPherson, “Current, Matadero Creek”
Leslie Adrienne Miller, “Two Rooms,” “Lithology”
Danielle Pafunda, “To that object of beauty at best beset by everyone’s bets”
Isaac Pickell, “We are more than mere endurance”
Doug Ramspeck, “Ontological Snow,” “Winter Auguries”
Zach Savich, “Cadenza,” “Institutional Disconfirmation”
Jane Springer, “After the Fire,” “Insurance List Item #1,970, Attic,” “After the Fire, Dressing”
Sarah Stickney, “The Westin, Annapolis”
Sally Van Doren, “Up Against It”
M. A. Vizsolyi, “[recesses],” “[quit]”
Ross White, “Performativity,” “A Hundred Names for Money, One of Which is My Father’s Name”

COVER ART