'ROMANCE & NEW BEGINNINGS'

FEBRUARY 2019

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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“Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she began to fly.”

—Unknown

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS

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SHORT FICTION

‘Storyteller’
Jenny Darmody

‘Standard Deviation’
Paul Nevin

‘Revolt of the Fireflies’
John Homan

‘The Primatarium’
Joseph Darlington

‘The Worst Husbands in All of Eternity’
Emily Deibler

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FLASH FICTION

‘Moustache Season’
Liz Wride

‘The Curse of Dander’
Delvon T. Mattingly

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MEMOIR

‘Windows’
Carly Madison Taylor

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TRAVEL

‘Change Me’
Rebecca Travalja

‘The Flying Machine’
Leah Mueller

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POETRY

‘For Love’
Stuart Buck

‘Clean’
Kristin Garth

‘Your Words are Pearls’ & ‘Reservation For Two’
December Lace
 
‘Extinguish’ & ‘The Patron Saint of Scared Kids Who Break into Dry Cleaners’
Justin Karcher

‘Battle Born’
T. J. McGowan
 
‘The World We Knew’
Juliette Sebock
 
'Messenger' & 'That Change'
Rickey Rivers Jr.
 
‘Under The Pillow’
Jeffrey Yamaguchi

‘An Autumn Leaf’
Melodie Jones
 
‘Rosebuds’ & ‘A Lonely Wizard’s Enchanted Lighter’
Tianna G. Hansen
 
‘Emergence’
Deborah Hansen
 
‘Okay So I’m Doing This’ & ‘Ancient Hopes’
Gail Bello

‘Balance’
James Croal Jackson

'The New Arrangement' & 'Happily I Will Drown With You'
Eric Lochridge

‘The Fly’ & ‘A Nest of Ants’
John Grey

‘Talking to the Girl You Like in a Pub’
Annabel Mahoney

‘Here’s To You’
Andrew Talbot

‘This Moment’
Lisa L. Weber

‘Unexpected’ & ‘Fat Girl Love Story’
Jessica Minyard

'Lingering For The Instant'
Elizabeth York Dickinson
 
‘Unrequited’ & ‘Reprisal’
Emma Halliday
 
‘Might As Well’
A. H. Lewis

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EXCLUSIVE

Interview with filmmaker, Yad Deen, discussing his latest short film, Carga.
(Interviewer: Lorna Codrai)

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Featuring:
Photography on this page by Ben Codrai
(IG/ @ben_codrai_dop)