Unfurl Your Umbrella . . .

JPD Nick and Nora cover front. . . because you are about to be showered with April awesomeness. The pieces in our seventy-seventh issue vary widely in subject, style, and tone, but each has a title that intrigues the reader without giving too much away.

Steve Sibra’s “My Papa, He Made Me a Frankenstein” sounds wonderfully like a B-horror country song. Who wouldn’t want to know “What You Deserve“? (If it’s this story by Tabitha Pearson, then you’ve been very, very good.) James Wade’s “At the Old Ball Game” misdirects expectations by appropriating a familiar refrain from Americana. Christopher Morgan’s “Omen” lays on the vague dread. “How They Lost Us” by Eleanor Gallagher simultaneously raises questions and promises answers. Christopher Allen goes all philosophical on us with “Everything that Matters in Life and Death.” The talented Allen Forrest provided this month’s cover art, “Nick and Nora.”

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