Spring 2014 | Issue 4

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Never, willingly, has she touched the beast. When it rides her for days on end its skin burns like several tons of stomach acid. How will she get it into the hole?

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      Miah Arnold is the author of the novel Sweet Land of Bigamy (Tyrus Books, 2012) and of stories appearing in literary journals. Her essay “You Owe Me” (originally in Michigan Quarterly Review) appeared in Best American Essays 2012. She has received a Barthelme Award, an Inprint/Diana P. Hobby Award, and an Established Artists Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance for her work. She received a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston, and then worked at a number of colleges and literary organizations in Houston including Writers in the Schools and Inprint. She is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia College and State University.
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Selected Fiction


Still Life, With Art
David Lombardi

“‘Shhhhh,’ his mother said, smoothing a hand across his shoulders. But Frank wasn’t tired anymore. He was wide-awake. He could hardly wait to hear what these special words were. He imagined her whispering to them into her hands and then opening her palms and revealing to him a toy car. Then, after saying more special things, the cars would zip around his room with streams of color spinning from their wheels.”

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Between Histories
Jonathan Chudler

“She wouldn’t float nude and perfect over a city indifferent to their lives, but instead would sit upright on the bed, legs crossed in cotton sweatpants, flipping the pointless pages of a gossip magazine. Samuel would know exactly what song she was humming, and he would hate it.”

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Writers


March 17, 1996
Hayan Charara

“I move—it doesn’t matter
I don’t know the physics of this
world—, the boys asleep so
calmly I wouldn’t know it
if they were no longer alive

and because of this they don’t see

all around us more green
than seems possible”

 

march 17 1996      Hayan Charara (b. 1972) is the author of three poetry books, The Alchemist’s Diary (Hanging Loose, 2001), The Sadness of Others (Carnegie Mellon, 2006), and Something Sinister, forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon in 2016. He is also the editor of Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry (University of Arkansas, 2008), and his children’s book, The Three Lucys (2014), received the New Voices Award Honor.

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