The Developmentally Disabled Blonde Girl From Oklahoma City Who Spoke Perfect Korean fiction by Ben Bush illustration by Traci Hui MOST OF the babies born…
Toys for a Desert by Stephen Smith Arabian. Of late, only for horses. Known once, or a version known, made of gauze and pins and…
Paint a Vulgar Picture by Jonathan Loucks A rope unraveling, bit by bit the nylon endings of my compulsions fray: Running into walls with knives…
Owens Valley by Cody Gates Strapped to this lucky red test we make up traditions rituals for the cattle crossings.…
and we were there by Jeff T. Johnson we can inhabit the past a friend tells me on the telephone we were talking about lines…
The Breaks Quality of Pause at the End of the Line by Jeff T. Johnson “THE CONCEPT of the line is fundamental to the concept…
Culture Mulcher Colson Whitehead Is Taking Names by Michael Larkin illustration by Jairan Sadeghi WHEN THE RATHER conspicuously unnamed lead character of Colson Whitehead’s novel,…
The Diviners Software Abuse, Guitar Chatter and the Poetics of Fake Forecasting by Kurt Newman and Michelle Detorie photos taken by Chris Cogburn illustration from…
Scraps, Part Two The Things Books Carry by Gravity Goldberg [Editor’s note: For part one of this story, please turn to Paper City, p. 49.]…
Pagodas in Bagan by Rodney Koeneke YOU HAVE left me with a beautiful thing. Looted (not sacked) I stand empty as pagodas in Bagan, while…