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NOTES FROM THE UNDERSTORY
“Then I lost the name of my mother."
by Rusty Morrison
SANGUINELLO
“Good evening to you / who would have me murdered"
by Molly Boyle
BURIAL PRACTICE II
“Then the goddammed grief. / Then mom doesn’t die."
by Zach Isom
BECOMING STILL-LIFE IN ST. LOUIS
“April’s final Saturday spent circling / museum halls. Photograph of rotting / peaches"
by Elise Thi Tran
More short fiction
RIVER AS INTERMEZZO
“Leekin ends at the river. The first people, the Catawba Nation, harnessed it with granite weirs.”
by Charles Israel, Jr.
CHARACTERS
"Tonight, I’m in my gazebo that sits on a spit of land, narrow as a writing brush, that juts into the pond."
by Charles Israel Jr.
A GOD SPEAKS AT THE BORDER
"When he sat on a steel chair in a room with no mirrors but two people—an officer and translator—he listed truth and fiction. As the words mixed together, no one could tell where the shadows began."
by Evan Burkin
THE GRAIN ELEVATOR
"Tug of gravity downwards and muscles upwards. The rungs dry as smoking ice."
by R.M. Fradkin
by Amelia Skinner SaintMore nonfiction
MINOANS
“Some light penetrates the empty inner courtyard. Otherwise the neat grass is dark, and the shadowed lower edge of the flats almost disappears where the brick meets the ground.”
by Dan Howell
THE CHICKEN, THE GOOSE, AND THE GANDER
“The canine lunged and clamped down, suffocating the goose’s cries.”
by S.N. Rodriguez
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