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Fiction K.B. Stockwood Literature

The Raven’s Job

The day was appropriately gloomy for a funeral. Raven perched on her ladder and sheared dead ivy from her windowsill, occasionally glancing at the procession of mourners mirrored in the glass. It wasn’t an unusual sight for a cemetery, of course, but she liked to watch over these things. There was...

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Jes Battis Literature Poetry

Brain Ghazal

The basement suite is leaking in my brain, connectors wet, though advertised brain-tight. My mentor, ice in her cup a rattling rain, from cancer-dark names me formidably brainy. I rustle into the paper bag of childhood, and touch the slick sweet jelly of sour brains. You take my photo on the...

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Genre Bender Literature Mackenzie Wiebe

Dresser (Drawers)

Mackenzie Wiebe is a writer interested in texture, sensation, and ornament. They have an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and currently organize the Emerging Writers Reading Series. They have a chapbook with Armistice Press called Wandering Teeth.

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Kevin Shaw Literature Poetry

Buzz Cut

I once thought of marriage as an exoplanet in the habitable zone of another star; I knew it was capable of sustaining life, I just didn’t want to live there. I’d taken astronomy lessons from my mom’s copy of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. How tidy the binary seemed back then, before...

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Literature Loch Baillie Poetry

Traces of Nowhere

I have seen Twin Peaks exactly once in my life, in an apparition of a sunroom. ◊ It was like watching dust settle, how bored I was, piecing together why I was here and what I wanted and what this would mean to me in the end. ◊ The hot itch of orange tweed against the backs of my legs, an irritating...

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