Issue Seventy

December 2020

From the Editor

Is there a word for every feeling? No beauty without disaster? Is it easier to love a wild thing? Issue seventy is full of unanswered and often unanswerable questions–and it’s a stunner. Formatting these stories and interviews is always a highlight of my quarter. Especially the interviews. By the time I proofread the stories for… Continue reading Issue Seventy

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There are a thousand ways to love a snake but only one way to kill it. Aakriti Karun(Read author interview)
You with You Janelle Bassett(Read author interview)
Armadillo Jesus Carson Markland(Read author interview)
A Letter to my Therapist, to Whom I’m No Longer Speaking Lindy Biller(Read author interview)
A Case for De-Extinction at the End of the World Lyndsie Manusos(Read author interview)
Only Skin Chris DeWitt(Read author interview)
Listening Michael Don(Read author interview)
Masquerade Melissa Bowers(Read author interview)
Our Girl, Victor Chantelle Chiwetalu(Read author interview)
The Bear of Goffstown Sarah Fannon(Read author interview)
Savage Daughters Allison Rae King(Read author interview)
The Old Baby Elizabeth Crowder(Read author interview)
Foldable Essay with Wet Bee L.I. Henley(Read author interview)
Plants of Paradise María Alejandra Barrios(Read author interview)

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