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  • Complicity
  • Diaphonous
  • Does My Slashed Achilles Tendon Make Me More Feminine
  • Erasure
  • Frida Kahlo and Other Women with Missing Parts
  • From Slag to Sanctuary: A Daughter Reflects
  • Gathering
  • Hallelujahs
  • Harold
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  • House Centipede
  • How to Commit Arson and Not Get Caught
  • I began making resolutions*
  • I Put On My Mother’s Coat and Her Dreams Fell Out
  • Issue 01
    • Contributors
    • Creative Nonfiction
      • A System of Linear Equations
      • Errands
      • Sex For the Recently Divorced
      • The Period Calendar
      • Variations On Numbness
    • Fiction
      • Bread and Butter
      • Guarding Charlene
      • Reflections on My Parents’ Past
      • Window
      • You Are The City
    • Flash
      • Blind Little Rain God
      • Love Letter to You at 85
      • Milk
      • Preservation Project
      • The Boxer’s Soliloquy
      • The Joy of Peeling
      • The Roaring River
      • The Wake
      • Welcome Home, Kakuda
      • White T-Shirt
    • Interviews
      • Issue #1 Interns
      • Porochista Khakpour
    • Masthead
    • Notes From the Editors
    • Poetry
      • Casey Drops Blue
      • First Cigarette
      • Frames
      • Genesis
      • my roommate is from the plane he walked off
      • New Religion
      • Strays
      • Temp
      • The Girl at Petco
      • The Tocai Fruiliano Is At 54 Degrees
  • Issue 02
    • Beanstalks
      • A Pair of Days in April
      • After the Bombs
      • Birthday Kisses
      • First Responders
      • How to Move Forward
      • I’m an Asshole: Marathon Monday
      • Into the Night
      • Letter to the World
      • Marathon Monday
      • Stay
      • Thank God for Naps
      • The Real in the Real
      • When She Closes Her Eyes
    • Contributors
    • Creative Nonfiction
      • Cycles
      • Loss, Faith, Chaos
      • Missing Girl Scout Cookies
      • The Beat Goes On
    • Fiction
      • Chessboard & Newspaper
      • Delia Done Wrong
      • Fine
      • Hefty Bag
      • You, The Ex, and the Neighbor
    • Flash
      • Ashes
      • Babyfeet
      • Jeff
      • Last Night with Aphrodite
      • Simple Pleasures
      • The Last Day
      • The Only Scars I Choose
      • The Other Side of the Bed
      • Watch and Memorize
      • You
    • Interviews
      • Erica Dawson
      • Featured Poems: Othello and Desdemona | Dan and Alex
      • Staff Interview
    • Masthead: Issue 2
    • Notes From the Editors
    • Poetry
      • All This
      • Bill Evans
      • Breaking Fast
      • Coming to Terms
      • Dead People’s Possessions
      • Eros | Psyche
      • Inheritage
      • Marriage
      • The Denial
      • The End of Daylight Savings
  • Issue 03
    • Contributors
    • Creative Nonfiction
      • Ice-Locked
      • Navigating the Margin
      • The Drunkest Band In Town
      • The Real 1984
    • Fiction
      • If It Hurts
      • The Siege
      • Two Trunks
      • What Daddy Was
    • Flash
      • Elias and the Moth
      • Flooding
      • Moments
      • Salomé
      • Silent Night
      • Still Life
      • The Call
      • The Public Pool
      • White Horse
    • Masthead: Issue 3
    • Notes from the Editors
    • Poetry
      • A Memory of Anya’s Birth
      • At a Crowded Party, I Am Not Envious
      • Aubade with Still-Visible Moon
      • Backyard
      • Bluebirds
      • Bully
      • Dark Wisconsin
      • Dream of the Jar
      • In the Dream You are Not Dead
      • More than Luck
      • Scientific
      • we have on display a nascent child
  • Issue 04
    • Contributors
    • Creative Nonfiction
      • As We Gather Around Ourselves
      • Episodic Boys
      • Fascinating Rhythm: In Praise of Punctuation
    • Fiction
      • Ants Go Marching
      • Death Music Heroes
      • Fortune Tellers
      • Jazzmen
      • Msc Whistling
      • The Cutoff Bridge
      • What About the Moon
    • Flash
      • Lineage
      • Once
      • The Eleven O’clock News
      • The Language of Little Things
      • What Grows Untended
    • Masthead: Issue 4
    • Notes From the Editors
    • Poetry
      • A Wife is a Hope Chest
      • Intro to Boredom 101
      • Jack Imagines a Different Map
      • Momos
      • Mussel
      • On The Gulf in Alabama
      • Rare Soul
      • Self-Portrait as Joan Jett
      • Twenty Years of Dead
      • Weight
  • Issue 05
    • Contributors
    • Creative Nonfiction
      • In My Hands
      • Villanelle
    • Fiction
      • At the Boarding House
      • Dances So Pretty
    • Flash
      • A Most Common Monster
      • At After
      • Bodies
      • How to Leave a Child in Four Delicious Recipes
      • Roytype
      • Saturday’s Treaties
      • What I Didn’t Want
    • Issue 05
    • Masthead: Issue 5
    • Notes from the Editors
    • Poetry
      • Abstract Onomatopoeia
      • Alonely
      • Between Worlds
      • Black Robin
      • Directory of Directions
      • Early Charts
      • Ephemerality
      • For Healing
      • How to Fix the Roof
      • How We Love
      • Pomegranate
      • Recoil
      • Red Fox
      • The Carefree
      • The Continuum
      • Utah
      • Without
  • Issue 06
    • Contributors
    • Creative Nonfiction
      • Out of the Garden
      • Pierce Impressions
    • Fiction
      • Chapel
      • Neighbors
      • Seven Thousand
      • The Balloon Sessions
      • The First Days
    • Flash
      • A Half-Formed Moon
      • Foxes
      • Moon Water
      • Shooting a Horse
      • Starlings
      • The Harvest
      • The Long Walk
      • Tightly Knit
      • Unbalanced
      • Wish
      • Without Permission
    • Masthead: Issue 6
    • Notes from the Editors
    • Poetry
      • 1982
      • Adoration #83
      • Auntie’s Laugh
      • Blueprint
      • Brown-Skinned Paranoia
      • Cleaning His Felt Hat
      • Communicating with Crows
      • Let Sleeping Dogs Sleep
      • Minor Dogma
      • Missing a Verse
      • Salmonella
      • Some Good Thing May Yet Happen
      • The Invention of Gunpowder
      • This Happened
      • Where Stood a Stake
  • Issue 07
    • Contributors
    • Creative Nonfiction
      • Detritus
      • Everyone Goes Upstairs
    • Fiction
      • A Communion
      • Makoma
      • The House in Hewlett
    • Flash
      • All I Know
      • Hooray for Earth
      • Lighthouse
      • The Only Show On Earth
      • What Is a Cistern?
    • Masthead: Issue 07
    • Notes from the Editors
    • Poetry
      • An Exile’s Daughter
      • Angles
      • Astronomy
      • Coming Down
      • Lover’s Psalm
      • Millstone
      • Mouse
      • Open Letter to Timothy Liu
      • Peaches
      • Pie Bird
      • Pomegranate
      • Pugilist at Best
      • Revelation in Iowa City
      • The Sky Falls at Midnight
      • Tohu, Tikkun
  • Issue 08
    • Art
      • Evidence II (Love Letters)
      • Ilusión Efimera
      • Single
      • Skin
      • Waiting for the Storm to Pass: The Third Meaning
    • Contributors
    • Creative Nonfiction
      • Living Myth
      • The ISO Room
    • Fiction
      • Everything Between
      • Marinara
      • When Something’s Broken Near Water
    • Flash
      • A Marriage
      • The Mortician’s Tale
    • Masthead: Issue 08
    • Notes from the Editors
    • Poetry
      • Estella Rose
      • First Kiss in the McDonald’s Parking Lot at Night
      • Green Psychosis
      • Guerilla
      • My Father as a Redwood Tree
      • Prayer for My Father’s Frontal Lobes
      • Rhode Island Red
      • The First Time I Sinned
      • The Landlord and the Optimist
      • The Stranger, the Sojourner Passes By
  • Issue 09
    • Art
      • Cell
      • Dead Leaf with Water Drops
      • Happiness
      • Murakami
      • Water Angel Series Excerpt 5
    • Contributors
    • Creative Nonfiction
      • In Love, In Grief, In Literature: A Literacy Memoir
      • Nine
      • Stranger
    • Fiction
      • >
      • A Different Water
      • Birthday Doves
      • Dragon Slayer
      • Glory of Infants
      • Loving an Ant Sadist
    • Flash
      • How to Be a Good Member of Group Therapy
      • Hula Hooping
      • Teenage Beach Party
      • The King of Naked City
      • The Selkie Wife
      • White Hot Apocalypse
    • Notes from the Editors
    • Poetry
      • Ark for the Axolotl
      • At My Son’s Favorite Mexican Restaurant After He Died
      • Blues
      • breakable bodies
      • Good Girls
      • I Move into a Castle
      • Lottery Tickets and the Odds of Retirement: A Meditation
      • My Uncle, the War
      • The Black Bull’s Bride
      • The Boat of My Body
      • The Cut Maple
      • Your Appointment Book is Empty
  • Issue 10
    • Art
      • Cathedral
      • The Weather Within a Poet’s Heart
      • Time Game
    • Contributors
    • Creative Nonfiction
      • Dogs
    • Fiction
      • Exposure
      • Father’s Day
      • How to Tie a Half-Windsor Knot 
      • Maybe We’ll Never Wake Up
      • Miss Teen USA
      • The Salt Gift
    • Flash
      • Animal Time
      • Contortions
      • Gift
      • Pillows Apart
      • Solstice
      • The Other Woman
    • Notes from the Editors
    • Poetry
      • All in the Stars
      • Before Cursing God, I Pray to my Wife
      • Blight
      • Conceit
      • Emily as Indiana
      • halo
      • In Kabul
      • In the Ötztal Alps
      • Learning to Drown
      • On Picking Blackberries
      • Watching fireworks at Kings Island Amusement Park, I cover my ears
      • What I Sometimes Forget
  • Issue 11
    • Contributors
    • Creative Nonfiction
      • Ghost World 1 – Heritage
      • Gravestone Rubbings from the City of Light
      • That
    • Fiction
      • Like Hell You’re My Neighbor
      • Rising and Falling
      • The Lantern Bridge
    • Flash
      • Matinee
      • On Water
      • Your Face Will Stay That Way
    • Notes From the Editors
    • Poetry
      • Chiromancy
      • Crocodile
      • Four Children, Fifty-Seven Envelopes
      • Me Too
      • Montgolfier’s Balloon
      • My Father Apologizes to my Mother for Last Night
      • My Father’s Child Watches a Room Burn
      • Poem for Katie, Queen of Ohio #42
      • Why You Shouldn’t Declaw Your Cat
  • Issue 12
    • All That Glitters
    • At Fourth and Union
    • Basement II
    • Bloom
    • City of Robins
    • Counting Cars
    • I Knew You
    • Japanese Garden Dawes Arboretum
    • Johnny Worked the Carnival
    • Jojo Is Finding His Way
    • Last Offices
    • Note from the Editors
    • Pasture Statues
    • Post-Scripts I Delete When I Email You to Tell You I Found Your Novelty Nicolas Cage Sock Behind the Dryer
    • Questions for the Orca J35 Tahlequah
    • Roads
    • Someone I Barely Knew Died
    • The Great Listener
    • The Sun Birds
    • To Cheer You Up
    • Twenty Ways to Make Your Marriage Work
    • Viola
    • When the Fathers Were Gone
  • Issue 13
  • Lamb Chops
  • lamictal love song
  • Mano Po
  • My Sister Wants To Know
  • Noelie and Her Beehives
  • Notes from the Editors
  • Notes from the Editors
  • One Painting
  • o—o—o
  • Perspectives
  • Prime Numbers
  • Shame Catcher
  • Song for Your Broken Heart
  • Spring of Cicadas
  • Sunlit
  • Telemarketer Loneliness
  • Tell Your Doctor
  • The ABCs of Writing Series
  • The Firewalkers
  • The Flight Attendants
  • The Ghost Farmer’s Girl
  • The Last Leaf at Myrtle Beach
  • The Moment After the Moment of the Splash
  • The Ship
  • The Talk
  • The Thing With Feelers
  • The Warmth of her Bread
  • Theoretical: a bird falls from the nest
  • Waves
  • You Can See the Prison from the Community College
• Briefs Blog
• Special Issue: Spry Lit x The Poetry of Science
  • Daniel Chonde, Scientist, Beaver
  • Editor’s Preface
  • Foreword
  • Grip
  • Her Volcano
  • Looking
  • Makinde’s Quantum World
  • Nature
  • Phylum Cnidaria
  • Spry Lit x Poetry of Science: Issue Contributors
  • The Shades of Us
  • To Be Understood
  • Truth in Numbers
  • Under the Eucalyptus Tree
  • Village-in-a-Dish
  • X-Ray
• Submissions Guidelines