Fiction |
“Having Spoken”
“And through my own eyes having known the clumsiness of a life bearing out, the labored O of a mouth mouthing ‘born, born, born.'”
Poetry |
Five Poems by Ferhad Pirbal
Fiction |
“Grad School” and “The Graphic Canon”
“You write your thesis on how to tell the no-wooden-toys-no-vaccination moms at your daughter’s daycare that you work part-time at Arby’s because teaching 160 first-year college students doesn’t pay all the bills.”
Fiction |
“Quiet Street (Neighborhood Watch Meeting #131)”
“Bassists hide behind their hair. Black is all the bassist wears. The bass will reach our kids long before it sneaks into our weak, tin ears.”
Poetry |
“An Index of Distressed Events”
Poetry |
from “Prisoner’s Cinema”
Fiction |
“Solutions”
“‘What, exactly, were you doing with the knife in the pawn shop less than an hour after you left the fundraiser, if you didn’t steal it?’ the police sergeant later asked the temp …”
Poetry |
“Sunbonnet”
Fiction |
“Sham Couple”
“Nathanael’s mother isn’t dead, she’s just suffering from dementia, but her husband, Achim, is already planning her burial. To be fair, he’s planning his own, too, and even his girlfriend Julika’s …”