48.1, Fall 2024

CONTENTS

    7   Editor’s Note

     9    Award Winners

 

FICTION

  11   Matthew Neill Null / In the 301

  69   Hannah Thurman / Beautiful Fucking Problems

  84   Adrienne Celt / Good Neighbors

132   Stephen Tuttle / The Work of Art

139   Hana Choi / The Trade 

156   Pete Levine / The Role of a Lifetime

 

COMIC

100   Cathy Mayer / Car Trouble

 

POETRY

  30   Caleb A.P. Parker / Palinode

  38   Melanie McCabe / The Invention of God

  64   Megan Alyse / Bone Fish Girl

  66   Kerry James Evans / The High Priestess

  68  Suzanne Langlois / Definitions

  79   Mary Biddinger / EVERYONE TAKE COVER, THE BOMBERS ARE ON DISPLAY

  80   C. E. Janecek / Permission

  83   Ian Cappelli / YOUR INNER MONOLOGUE IS AUDIOVISUAL

108   Flower Conroy / Quagga / Carrion 

110  Jennifer Polson Peterson / This Will Always Be / Faith 

114   Rachel Richardson / Permission / Gyre 

126  Shlagha Borah / genealogy

128  Cortney Lamar Charleston / It’s Important I Remember That Survival Is a Matter of  

     Luck—

130  Clay Cantrell / Texas

131  Emily Corwin / Prelude to Crush, Belated 

134  Martha Silano / Fondest Memories from the Locked Ward 

136   Michael Rogner / Cities in the Sky

138  Katie Erbs / Georgia O’Keeffe & the Atom Bomb 

151  Christopher Brean Murray / The Trilogy 

154   Heikki Huotari / Aesthetic Distance Fixed

155   Tom Kelly / House Crashers

176  Bertha Crombet / Tongue Mother 

178  Kate Hubbard / Lotis and Priapus 

179   Alyse Knorr / I’m Secretly Rooting for the Transhumanists and their Immortalist

Ideology

197   Jeanine Walker / Heron

198   Leah Brand / Shiva

 

NONFICTION

   39   Naomi Gordon-Loebl / Lost Uncle

 119   Alberta Nassi / Treif

 180   Faith Shearin / Going Home

 

 200   Contributors’ Notes