Issue 72
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2019 James Knudsen Prize for Fiction
Andrew De Silva The Foot Locker at the End of the World
2019 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival One-Act Play Contest
Elaine Insinnia Always Split Aces and Eights
Fiction
Katie Young Foster Countdown to a New Year
Sarah Salway Catching a Train with Godot
Karin Killian What Gets Lost Along the Way
Dennis McFadden Steinbeck the Cat
Nonfiction
Christina Danielle Bartson Shaved Female Heads
Bill Marsh Sentences
Rebecca Kuder Cushion & Frame
Caroline Crew The Arsonists
Poetry
Larry Narron Hola, me llamo Lorenzo
Romeo Oriogun My Tinder Date Speaks of Fruit
After a Black Out
Shanique Carmichael Thank You
Michael Montlack International Adoption
A. Saleem At the Professional Threading Studio on St. Marks with Boba After
Rebecca Bedell Transfer Points
Matt Jones Mother, no
Braces
Dina Paulson-McEwen Quinceañera
Timothy Robbins Handling (blood patch)
Jeremy Radin Pre-Diabetic
Beneath the Fridge a Cricket
Jeanette Beebe The Chairs Are Stackable If Pulled Apart
Forester McClatchey La Brea Evenings
Willy Palomo I need $600 by the end of this poem
Kara Kai Wang Confession
My mother tells me this is privilege
Glenn Shaheen Churches of Pain
Kathy Z. Price because