Fiction
February Contributors
David Agyei-Yeboah, Swetha Amit, Olivia Ardine, Brooklyn Armstrong, Khushi Bajaj, Sharon Bippus, Sacha Bissonnette, Danilla Botha, Camryn Brennan, Margaret Cahill, William Jennings Chalk, Cooper Clarence, Kalan Cordell, Enrique De Alba, Craig Demi, Tyler Efford, Andrew Eastwick, Kate Forbes-Riley, Christian Fuller, Jonathan Daniel Gardner, Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos, Kris Green, David Hinson, Michael Holtzman, Caroline Huckeba, D. J. Huppatz, Jonathan Jackson, Joelle Killian, Tom Koperwas, Jesse Lifton, JP Lor, Lana Lowe, Gracie Lyle, Andrea Marcusa, D.C. Martin, Finnegan McBride, Kathryne McCann, Tom Newcomer, Seth Parker, Christopher Kostyn Passante, Tif Robinette, McKenna Robison, John Sara, Eylie Sasajima, Shawn Scott Smith, Té V. Smith, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Rick Taliaferro, Hayden Taylor, Mary Thorson, Jack Timko, Essi Ward, and Jon Wesick
February Highlights
ma’s elmo phone
by JD Clapp
“I just don’t have it in me to go back. But hell, at least she has Elmo now.”
shepherd
by Robert L. Penick
“Dad is passed out in the yard again, couldn’t stagger in from where his buddies dropped him at the curb.”
two micros
by Jack B. Bedell
“She’s there to get some film on the black-and-gold team’s coach. He’s a defense attorney who’s supposed to have severe disk damage at C3-5 after a fender bender, but you’d never know it from the way he’s laying into his wife behind the dug out…”
jean cocteau’s apples
by Grove Koger
““To see within, turn your eyes to the horizon.” Even if, it seems, you have no eyes with which to see …”
recess
by David Henson
“We shuffle through our morning routines. Driving to work, we wonder at the kites tangled in the trees.”