Issue 79

Table of Contents

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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

Busking Lessons

In the Province of Piacenza

Nonfiction

Morgan Jenkins

M. Alexandra Jones

Jim Kelly

The Boy Named Persephone

Reaching for Phantoms

Elgin Movements

Poetry

Lake Angela

Alleliah Nuguid

Steve Castro

Amanda Hawkins

Jad Josey

Dustin M. Hoffman

Teja Sudhakar

Leigh Lucas

Joel Harris

I Am My Mothers

Mukbang Diptych

Blind date

Closets

The Birds Lit Out

About That Ladder You Honked at on M-46

ABECEDARIAN FOR MY MOTHERS

Dangerous Times

Metamorphosis // Postcolonial Jeremiad for the Free and The Brave

Natalie Homer

Sara Moore Wagner

Anemone Beaulier

Sarah Carson

Linda Bamber

Michael Mark

Sara Biggs Chaney

Julia Ongking

Erick Verran

Mario Duarte

Catch and Release

Self-Portrait as Two Annies

Pity

I Named My Loneliness Zelda

Cold Day in April

Big, Big Stick

a letter to my daughter

Self-Portrait of a Grieving Mother

Album Leaf

Talking to the Van Gogh on My Green Bedroom Wall

Cate Peebles

Andrew Payton

Alex Turissini

Frank Carellini

The Rain, Remix

Timeline

Late Summer

My grandmother vegetatively transcends into a monk’s forest

Bunny Morris

Amy Yue-Yin Chan

Robin Gow

another good day

On Hudson River

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