Issue 79
You can purchase this issue of Bayou Magazine here. 2023 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival One-Act Play Winner Kevin Brodie Leviathan: A Play in One Act Fiction Chris Wiberg Benjamin Page Beth Meko Julia Meinwald Maya Afilalo George Choundas It’s Not You Between the Risen Land and That Bastard, the Sea Silent Retreat Devil You Know […]
Anamnesis
By Cindy King Issue 78 I remember the last time I had fish. It was at a waterfront restaurant with my mother decades ago. I ordered a cocktail. My mother brought her own— a pharmacological rainbow she shook from what looked to me like a little plastic coffin. It was a Saturday or Sunday when […]
My People
By Isabelle Mongeau Issue 78 My mother wouldn’t look at me. She washed my father’s yogurt bowl in the sink, her back to me, while I fidgeted in the doorway. The words screamed in my mind: Turn around, goddammit. Won’t you hug me? Won’t you say something? Mom, please. Please. The plea died as she […]
Nine Parties from Before Rent Was Too High
by Phoebe Oathout Issue 78 Do You Know Her was a party at permanent risk of devolving into group therapy, a freak show fat with winos and gorgeous transvestites. Every Tuesday, nine to midnight, the regulars came to play their part. Mork worked the door. Sweet Bee played host. Roy covered the bar, and Delilah […]
Issue 78
You can purchase this issue of Bayou Magazine here. 2022-23 Kay Murphy Prize for Poetry Sally Lipton Derringer balconies Fiction Phoebe Oathout Stephanie Frazee Jude Whiley Choo Yi Feng Deya Bhattacharya Nine Parties from Before Rent Was Too High Salamander Night The Brain Named Itself Voices from the Line Survival Instinct Nonfiction Linda Scotto Asha Singh David […]
I Prefer the Praying Mantis
by Heather Rounds issue 77 In 2004 my mother and I bent spoons sitting in a circle with 15 other women on the floor of Reverend Anne’s tiny pink Victorian, in the Spiritualist village of Lily Dale, New York. “Tonight you are capable,” Reverend Anne said, patting her loud red hair. She opened the night […]
Follow the Leader
by Zilla Jones issue 77 Leader came home on a cloudy day during the wet season, when the noon sky was as dark as midnight and the rain rattled down like pebbles, tearing the palm leaves from the trees. It puddled in the trenches lining the island’s main roadway that ran between the airport and […]
Recipe for Adobong Palaka
by Yvanna Vien Tica issue 77 1. a. when she mistakes a frog For food she stores the children’s laughter as punishment 1. b. she is beguiled by their mouths how the tongues flickered like rabbits flashing through snow 2. how can you blame her when everything back home heated without warning flooded without ceasing […]
Rearticulation
by Anastasia Stelse issue 77 The archaeologist, too, came bearing bones. Textbook curvatures kept clean—His own a set in blue velvet. I roll them onto the table in our study. Build hands. Wire wrapped around each carpal connects to metacarpal. This way I can pose them, the un-matching set. Sometimes I intertwine the small left […]
Issue 77
You can purchase this issue of Bayou Magazine here. 2022-2023 Tennessee Williams One-Act Play James Odin Wade By the Book Fiction Rebecca Turkewitz Carl Williams Julian Anderson James Braun Ra’Niqua Lee Sean Theodore Stewart Melissa Barker Tory Dickerson Zilla Jones Sarah Lane’s School for Girls Conclusions Arirang If Ever We Take Flight Red Light Special A […]