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Chris Holdaway: Excerpt from CODE: Equinox, a poetry hybrid

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Chris Holdaway is a poet/editor/linguist from New Zealand, where he directs Compound Press (compoundpress.org). He is the author of HIGH-TENSION/FASHION (Greying Ghost, 2017), with recent work in Cream City Review, The Seattle Review, and elsewhere.
Nathan Wade Carter: Two Poems

Impossibly Large Horn I am parrots together.We telepath to concrete veins.We cross the black when told.We don’t like to practice.But that’s what water do. Weather spits and pisses on the grooves of canyons. What noise would this make, A right-size needle and an impossibly large horn? Coin toss into well. There’s a man down there…
Sara Lautman Illustration: “overcast”

*Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. Sara Lautman is a cartoonist, illustrator and editor in Brooklyn. Her drawings have been published with Tablet, Jezebel, The Pitchfork Review, The Believer Logger, and are forthcoming in The New Yorker. Her next collection, The Ultimate Laugh, was published by Tinto Press in winter 2016. She is…
Poetry by merrit k: “What I Meant When I Handed You the Key”

i’m tired of giving.i want you to takeeverything about meand crumple it into atidy heap besidethe hissing radiator. later we cando the work of unfoldingtogether, smoothing outnew lines with sure hands. for now, inward pressure,compression, andthe tense promiseof a spring. merritt k is a Canadian writer whose work investigates the conditions of intimacy in precarious…
Colleen Kolba Comic: “Up Late”

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Colleen Kolba is a writer and cartoonist from Chicago, Illinois. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Rumpus, Hobart, Entropy, and elsewhere. She is an editor at weirderary and teaches writing and literature at the University of South Florida, where she is completing her…
Natalie Cunningham: “Earth Works,” an essay

The people of the Midwest were inveterate movers of the earth. Monks Mound towers above its landscape, with hundreds of smaller mounds tossed across the landscape like a child playing jacks on the table of the soil. They used seashells, stone hoes, baskets, a painstaking process of digging, loading, hauling, dumping, shaping. Someone estimates forty-three…
A Short Story from James Brubaker’s Black Magic Death Sphere: (Science) Fictions: “H.G. Wells and The Present Crisis in Human Affairs”

Sometime in 1935: Imagine Herbert George Wells sitting on a stack of wood in a soundstage at Worton Hall in Isleworth. He watches an army of carpenters build a façade of the future out of cheap wood while he awaits the arrival of his film’s set designer, Vincent Korda. The carpenters swarm around Wells, every…
“Election Year,” a poetry comic by Catherine Bresner (published in the empty season)

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Catherine Bresner’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Offing, Passages North, The Pinch, H_NGM_N, Cream City Review, Burntdistrict, Handsome, and elsewhere. She has been the coordinating editor for The Seattle Review, an intern at Wave Books, and is currently the managing editor for BOAAT Press.…
Sean Lovelace: Two Fictions

Destiny James Franco mail ordered a monk. The monk was the son of a flea trainer, who was the son of a flea trainer, who was again the son of a man who professionally trained fleas. “The blood of the flea is within our soul,” the monk told James Franco over Pop-Tarts (this was in…