ISSUE № 

05

a literary journal in multiple time zones

May. 2024

ISSUE № 

05

a literary journal in multiple time zones

May. 2024

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The Swan as Metaphor for Love

Amelia Gray -
The Swan as Metaphor for Love is included in Amelia Gray's collection Gutshot, which is now available from FSG. Purchase it from Powell's A swan's...

Prophets

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The famous black writer was in town to give a reading, and Coleman was not sure if he would go. He had known the...

Ten Year Affair

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Cora met Sam in a baby group in their small town. They sat on blue plastic mats in the back room of an overpriced...

War of Attrition

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My marriage is ending and it's my fault. In the other room, Andrew is snoring. I’m on the couch. Here is the buttery weight...

The Origin of the Lullaby

Canisia Lubrin -
we were troubled some of us, before you read this, will be missing in the old ways and in some ways new we bring news of...

The Whipping

Christine Kwon -
Though Connie had been living in Budapest for two years now, she had not been to all the baths. She alternated between three that...

Sissy

Rebekah Morgan -
Sissy sits on the wooden porch swing overlooking our whole and entire everything. Sits eating paw paws with her eyes shut tight and knuckles...

French Absolutism

Brandon Taylor -
Before Lionel was an exam proctor, he had been a math major on the cusp of graduating with honors. Then something had gone wrong...

And It Goes Running

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Aside from becoming a werewolf, June was actually pretty non-eventful.  Everything was simpler when I shifted. I didn’t think about Mama crying over the mountains...

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Per was off work for a week with a concussion. He spent most of that time on a pull-out in the darkened living room...
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