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    • A Clean Cut
    • A LIGHT IN MARGATE
    • ABC’s of Fiction Writing
    • ABC’s of Writing (for Beginners)
    • ABCs of Creative Nonfiction
    • ABCs of Flash Writing
    • ABCs of Poetry
    • After the Flood
    • After the Rain
    • Aubade for Aging
    • Bad Translation
    • Borderlands
    • Cliff Diver
    • Clockwork Overture
    • 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
    • Hibiscus Remembered
    • Hodges
    • Home
    • 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
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