215 pages

Issue No. 125

In This Issue

“The Mysteries of the Universe” by Anna Badkhen:
“I see now what this is about. I’m a professor and author in America, she’s in a war zone: to her, I’m rich and happy. How is she supposed to know about the cancer, the medical debt, Ksyusha’s student loans? So, I try to deflect.”

“Encyclopedia of Botany” by Jane Marchant:
A daughter’s closely observed catalog of the flora around her Bay Area home, and of her family’s complex history of identity.

“Glint of Sportby” Angie Sijun Lou:
“I don’t know if this story is true. You can’t divide truth from kitsch in this place…”

“Eulogy” by William Hawkins:
In the wake of a funeral, a dead father’s legacy hangs over his surviving adult sons as they trudge into the lukewarm waters of the lake by the family pier.

“The Eye” by Elodie Saint-Louis:
“When Theo spoke, she thought, you could see all of these places on his body. Vyros, Hymettus, Loutro, Parnitha. The land was in him. It was the river running out of his mouth. The words that bumped into each other gently but never spilled over, petering out into a gentle sway.”

Plus more fiction by Perry Janes, David Hayden (there be strange happenings in a dilapidated insurance building in Chicago), and Wendy Elizabeth Wallace.

Poetry
Jason Allen-Paisant, Dan Alter, E.G. Cunningham, Peter LaBerge, Maria Zoccola, and the translated work of Ricardo Cázares (an ekphrasis on Cy Twombly) and of the late French-Egyptian Jewish surrealist Joyce Mansour.

Art
Sofia Bonati