'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

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‘Storyteller’

Jenny Darmody

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‘Standard Deviation’

Paul Nevin

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‘Revolt of the Fireflies’

John Homan

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‘The Primatarium’

Joseph Darlington

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‘The Worst Husbands in All of Eternity’

Emily Deibler

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FLASH FICTION

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‘Moustache Season’

Liz Wride

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‘The Curse of Dander’

Delvon T. Mattingly

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MEMOIR

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‘Windows’

Carly Madison Taylor

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TRAVEL

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‘Change Me’

Rebecca Travalja

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‘The Flying Machine’

Leah Mueller

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POETRY

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‘For Love’

Stuart Buck

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‘Clean’

Kristin Garth

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‘Your Words are Pearls’ & ‘Reservation For Two’

December Lace

‘Extinguish’ & ‘The Patron Saint of Scared Kids Who Break into Dry Cleaners’

Justin Karcher

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‘Battle Born’

T. J. McGowan

‘The World We Knew’

Juliette Sebock

'Messenger' & 'That Change'

Rickey Rivers Jr.

‘Under The Pillow’

Jeffrey Yamaguchi

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‘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

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‘Balance’

James Croal Jackson

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

Eric Lochridge

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‘The Fly’ & ‘A Nest of Ants’

John Grey

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‘Talking to the Girl You Like in a Pub’

Annabel Mahoney

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‘Here’s To You’

Andrew Talbot

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‘This Moment’

Lisa L. Weber

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‘Unexpected’ & ‘Fat Girl Love Story’

Jessica Minyard

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'Lingering For The Instant'

Elizabeth York Dickinson

‘Unrequited’ & ‘Reprisal’

Emma Halliday

‘Might As Well’

A. H. Lewis

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EXCLUSIVE

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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/ @bencodrai)

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