I keep having dreams they take her from mewhen I hadn’t finished. I wanted her more. I wander halls in…
“Picking,” a collaborative short story by Kim Magowan & Michelle Ross from Vol. 9
I’m picking lemons from the lemon tree beside the back porch of a man I met a week ago at…
From Vol. 9: “From THE SELF IS BEING THOUGHT,” poetry by Amie Zimmerman
III. presented with the frameworkof fevers, faith, moonlight and such other violencean obvious definition of self I amnot ready to…
From Vol. 9: “birthday poem” by Patrick Kindig
today there are marigoldsblooming in the street& i mean this literally.there are marigolds risingfrom the seam betweenthe curb & the…
Three Poems by Anat Zecharia (Translated by Tsipi Keller) from Vol. 9
Lust Nothing is more useless than Godhe doesn’t stroke my foreheaddoesn’t stretch a moist tongueto lustfully lick the bloodfrom every…
Two Poems by Eddy Jordan from Vol. 9
Theatre for Realtors An afternoon for burning, we lookin houses.A chance to makesome theatre for realtorswe say, realtorsare people too…
Two Fictions by Teague von Bohlen from Vol. 9
Bombs in Dogs My ex Shelly and her new husband are moving out of town, a little over an hour’s…
“Hourglass, Hourglass,” an essay by Loie Rawding from Vol. 9
12:11 a.m.We lost power, just as my body was turning to stone and sinking into the wet concrete of Sunday…
Poems & Mixed Media by Jeffrey Grunthaner from Vol. 9
Revisions For the moment he does summertime with an alexandrine mounted in air,inscribed in a space of appropriation—a hundred-foot colossus…
THE HIGH ALIVE: AN EPIC HOODOO DIPTYCH by Carlos Sirah, reviewed by Dave Karp
The 3rd Thing Press, a small Olympia, Washington, press, is explicitly committed to cross-genre, inter-surrectional experimental writing; it publishes books…
From Vol. 9: Two Bird Quizzes by Rose Hunter
Albatross Quiz Various species of albatross cana. circumnavigate the globeb. fly to the moonc. become curses and symbols of atonement…
From Vol. 9: “MATH DEATH,” a short comic by Dustin Holland
Dustin Holland lives and works in northern Colorado where he and his brother make The Holland Boys Zine (patreon.com/hollandboyszine).
From Vol. 9: Three Prose Poems by Susan L. Leary
Joyful Poem, with Nearsightedness We enter the world able to detect the earliest upheavals of atmosphere. Each morning, the thousand…
From Vol. 9: “80,” a short story by Stephen Dixon
He wakes up, gets his cellphone off the night table and opens it to look at the time. 3:02. He’s…
From Vol. 9: Two Poems by Glenn Shaheen
Cannon Fruit flies numerous and can Ibring myself to kill them to ruintheir structures of flight theydiminish our standard of…
