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Features Issue 44 Poetry

Glossary for What You Left Unsaid: Loss

Aldo AmparánFebruary 21, 2021March 22, 2021

Features Issue 44 Poetry

Topography

Matthew GellmanFebruary 21, 2021March 22, 2021

There was no making me speak. I was stoic as the horse made of foil on my teacher's shelf. By spring I didn't want to go home most days, so I took the long way across the field and folded the pendulous throats of the first trumpet flowers, eyeing, just...

Features Issue 44 Poetry

The Dream of the Shepherd

Megan PintoFebruary 20, 2021March 22, 2021

You say the Shepherd waits all night for the dream to abate. But how could you know? In the painting He covers his face. Last week, I called to tell you that I wanted to die. This was not the first time. In the Shepherd's dream, the women are cast...

Features Fiction Issue 44

Trawlers

Josh RolnickJanuary 1, 2021March 22, 2021

They went every Friday. It was something he looked forward to at the end of a hard day at the end of a hard-earned week. Not something they had to discuss. Five o’clock would come. Flora would put on a nice dress—maybe the pale blue one that uncannily matched the...

Contests Features Fiction Issue 44

Tiny Baba

Steph KarpJanuary 1, 2021March 22, 2021

Baba was tiny. Not short—diminutive. So tiny she had to sit in a booster seat at the table. So tiny she had to hold my pinky as we walked, even in her five-inch platform Mary Janes. You could barely hear Baba, she was so tiny and far away. She would...

Features Fiction Issue 44

Gingersnaps

Sophia VeltfortDecember 30, 2020March 22, 2021

That Andrew ventured into the guest room at all was unusual. It was the room where his daughter from his first marriage stayed when she visited, and he thought of it as hers. He always suspected she would intuit any betrayal of her privacy and add it to the tab...