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    • 2009
      • Issue One, October 2009
        • The Legend of the Jersey Devil
        • Jersey Fresh
        • One Hundred Seconds of Solitude
        • Decisions
        • Manual Criticism
        • Letters to Wolfhaus
        • Dog Days
        • The Werebear Who Wished to Come in from the Rain
      • Issue Two, November 2009
        • Sister
        • Foreign Exchange
        • Of Seagulls and Fishes
        • English Degree
        • Thinking Man’s Metal
        • Bound
        • Exodus
      • Issue Three, December 2009
        • Formula Romance
        • Gnosis Kardia
        • Time Machine
        • White Hallways
        • The Boy Who Threw Rocks at Trains
        • You and Me and the End of the World
      • 2009 Holiday Half-Issue
        • Feliz Navidad
        • For Piano and Voice
        • River Girl
        • September’s Christmas
    • 2010
      • Issue Four, January 2010
        • Dead Sharp Tail
        • Why the Walls Haven’t Been Painted Yet
        • The Hair
        • Three Dates in Orlando
        • Navels
        • Tête-à-Tête
      • Issue Five, February 2010
        • The Golden Streams of Babylon
        • 52 Pickup
        • My Walk to Gamal Abd el Nasser
        • Kali’s Dance
        • Run for the Border
      • Issue Six, March 2010
        • Big Girl
        • Hand Me Down
        • To Do List
        • Normal After All
        • Out of Steam Punk and Zombie Comes Bruce Lee
      • Issue Seven, April 2010
        • The Newcomers
        • Nothing Up His Sleeve
        • Sigourney Weaver Stole My Shadow
        • Two Stories
        • Enclosure
        • Snowpocalypse
      • Issue Eight, May 2010
        • Album of the Year
        • The Last Goodbye
        • The Old Man and the Shark
        • Family Tree
        • Like I Wasn’t There
        • Pulling Feathers Off a Phoenix
      • Issue Nine, June 2010
        • Business with an M
        • Hey-Zeus, Can You See?
        • Big Girls
        • The Athlete
        • Slice of Life
      • Issue Ten, July 2010
        • Honesty Spree
        • The Socratic Method
        • The Bargain
        • The Downside to Undying Love
        • Demons and a Dead Duke
        • The New Mercury Ghost Dancers
      • Issue Eleven, August 2010
        • Crawfish Noon
        • The Tools of Amputation
        • Too Much Blood
        • Theo
        • The World’s Largest Jigsaw Puzzle is a Bitch to Solve
        • Thinking of Ewe
      • Issue Twelve, September 2010
        • Stupid
        • How to Spend $40
        • Tesh
        • Road Test
        • Autumn Harvest
        • A Terrifying Moment of Contentment
      • Issue Thirteen, October 2010
        • A Robot’s Sonnet
        • Hole in the Garden
        • Morning Birdsong and the Hell Demons
        • Brave Young Americans: Some Assembly Required
        • Captain Neptunium and Lady U-boat
      • Issue Fourteen, November 2010
        • The Pragmatist
        • The Ballad of Done Me Wrong and Maybegirl
        • The Rodeo Clown
        • The Seven Stages of Sorrow
        • That Was Called Love
      • Issue Fifteen, December 2010
        • The Carpenter
        • You Can Take the Boy Out of Jersey
        • Gooseflesh
        • Nimrod!
        • Devil in the Details
        • One-Fourth
      • Holiday Half-Issue 2010
        • The First Thing I’ll Need is a Goat
        • Mall Satan
        • Blitzenkrieg
    • 2011
      • Issue Sixteen, January 2011
        • In A Pinch
        • Brown and Green: A Love Story
        • The Unanswerable Question, Answered
        • If No, Then Else
        • Jenny
        • Apocalypse Wow!
      • Issue Seventeen, February 2011
        • The Monster at Baggage Carousel #3
        • The Fortune Teller
        • Space Creature Versus Earth Creature
        • Courting Aleksandra
        • Out of Sight, Out of Time
      • Issue Eighteen, March 2011
        • Night of the Garter
        • Bubble Wrap
        • Chimp
        • The Zombie Wish
        • Laika Wins the Race
      • Issue Nineteen, April 2011
        • Trapped in the Bathroom at the End of the World
        • Third Guard
        • Dry Heat
        • The Badlands
        • Armageddon’s Jester
      • Issue Twenty, May 2011
        • Socko and Roy
        • A Discourse on the Impending Apocalypse
        • Detachment
        • Eli and the Empty Lot
        • Julia and Raul
      • Issue Twenty-One, June 2011
        • A Chimaera Story With Four Morals
        • Literary Ops
        • The Swell Foop
        • The Six
        • The Stupidest Thing I’ve Ever Heard
      • Issue Twenty-Two, July 2011
        • Golden Hours
        • Red
        • Jesus’ Nephew
        • Mammy’d Give Me Minds To Eat
        • Jolly Roger
      • Issue Twenty-Three, August 2011
        • Exposure
        • The Toad and the Butterfly
        • Pentecostal
        • CPA of the Sith
      • Issue Twenty-Four, September 2011
        • Where Did My Balls Go? or, The Story of Oliver: A Canine Memoir
        • Colony
        • Projekt Gesichtskreis
        • Fear and Loathing in Western Sweden
        • We Love Lucy
      • Issue Twenty-Five, December 2011
        • Conversations with My Vestigial Tail
        • Bones
        • Infested
        • Me and Gatsby
        • Rodents from Beyond: Part Two
        • A Nice Jewish Golem
        • Red Hot Panda Love
      • Holiday Half-Issue 2011
        • Almost Every November
        • The Resurrection of Old Saint Nick
        • Chinese Take-Out
        • The Long Happy New Year of Dora Wellington
    • 2012
      • Issue Twenty-Six, January 2012
        • Night of the Living
        • Sonny Boy
        • The McElroy Family Hole
        • Beta Geminorum
        • We Left Him with the Dragging Man
        • The Final Word
      • Issue Twenty-Seven, February 2012
        • About the Hiding of Buried Treasure
        • The Remarkable Case of Lily Temple
        • Like I Say
        • SOCKS
        • Death Car Alley
        • Red and Blue Makes Purple
        • Untitled
      • Issue Twenty-Eight, March 2012
        • Inside the Ellipse
        • Body
        • No Suits Allowed
        • What’s Yours Is Yours
        • Awful Gods
        • Devil Smile
      • Issue Twenty-Nine, April 2012
        • Epics Reduced to Sentences
        • Winning for Losing
        • James Joyce, Herman Melville, and God Get Rejected!
        • Sylvia’s Kitchen
        • Bubbling Over
        • A Brief Survey of 19th Century North European Art
        • War Zone
        • Mademoiselle Ponceau
      • The All-Star Issue: Issue Thirty, May 2012
        • Cleopatra the Alligator Empress and What She Left Behind
        • Murmuration
        • The Last Bird
        • The Artist and the Asterisk
        • Fictional Ruins and Finger Bang
      • Issue Thirty-One, June 2012
        • Big Lonesome Monster
        • Bonnie and Clyde
        • Change-Me Chelsey
        • McRib Ending Soon
        • Paper Heart
        • Crumplezone
        • Beneath the World Teeth
      • Issue Thirty-Two, July 2012
        • Night of the Living Thespians
        • Love I Get So Lost
        • Salome
        • Longing to Play the Oboe
        • Wide Right Game
        • You Know What To Do
        • TextureX
      • The Novella Issue: Issue Thirty-Three, August 2012
        • Merdeux
        • Surface Interval
        • Lazy Daze
      • Issue Thirty-Four, September 2012
        • In The Drink
        • Dad’s Barracuda
        • The Tickets
        • El Legarto Gigante
        • The Youguru
        • Slug Love
        • Jetpackin’
        • Ouroboros
        • For Kylie
        • The Guitarist
        • Super, Not Nova
        • The End of a Day
        • Writer’s Block
      • Issue Thirty-Five, October 2012
        • Sum Quod Eris
        • Gate Night
        • A Shirt of Bears
        • Seven Minutes in Heaven
        • Mermaids at St. Abbs Head
        • The Magician
        • Grime 107
      • Issue Thirty-Six, November 2012
        • Men of Blood
        • Lorissimo
        • G.V.M.
        • Toasty
        • Hard Travelin’
        • Union Beach
      • Special Issue: International Human Rights Day 2012
        • How I Upstaged Anne Frank
      • Another Novella Issue: Issue Thirty-Seven, December 2012
        • Keeley Kunoichi
        • from Book of Shadows
    • 2013
      • Issue Thirty-Eight, January 2013
        • Together, We Can Save a Life
        • Monsters: A Series of Non-Chronological Vignettes
        • Of Lullabies and Lightning Storms
        • Elephantine
        • Good for the Gander
        • My Headphones
      • Issue Thirty-Nine, February 2013
        • Brace
        • Death Valley
        • Correspondence*
        • How to be a Celebrity
        • Us: A Retrospective
        • The Fall
        • Blanket of Ash
        • Godzilla Reading Haiku
        • Deconstructing Poe
      • Issue Forty, March 2013
        • Spike
        • Killer Interview
        • Chestnut Trifold
        • Bakkheia
        • The Snake Eaters
        • Heart of Darkness, Page 065
      • Issue Forty-one, April 2013
        • Black River
        • The People They Became
        • Seeking Sunday
        • Dippin’ and Dustin’
        • Salivate
        • Sword Fight
      • Issue Forty-two, May 2013
        • Storybook Romance
        • Squirrel
        • The Puzzle
        • Hey, Brother
        • Bazaar
        • Back and to the Left
        • Church
        • Slow Betty
        • Inspiration’s Well
        • Forgotten
      • Issue Forty-three, June 2013
        • Drones
        • Arrhythmia
        • What The Hell Is A Bread Van?
        • Middle-Class Man
        • Sleeping Saints Lie
        • It Scares Me When It Gets Like This
        • The Last Time I Saw Her, She Was Doing Fine
        • The Next Screen You See May Be Your Own
      • Issue Forty-four, July 2013
        • The Hunter in the Darkness
        • Interior Design
        • The Madness of Fluffytown
        • Whispers to the Moon Are Always Heard by Cats
        • The Watchers in the Dark
        • Tentacle
      • Issue Forty-five, August 2013
        • Liz Kicak
        • Ed Higgins
        • Jason Braun
        • Skylaar Amann
        • Mike Cole
        • Ben Nardolilli
        • William Doreski
        • M. R. Lang
        • Trevor Tingle
        • Amanda Chiado
        • Changming Yuan
        • Richard Prins
        • Eric Westerlind
        • Uche Ogbuji
        • Mark Burgh
        • Robert Buswell
        • JeFF Stumpo
        • Sigrun Susan Lane
        • Hamlet, Prince of Uranus
      • Issue Forty-six, September 2013
        • Blood and Dirt
        • Prophet
        • The Hermitage
        • Hitchin’
        • The Laws
        • The Big One
        • Being Judged
      • Issue Forty-seven, October 2013
        • There is No Joy between the Last Thing and the Next Thing
        • Painting Dragons
        • The Art of the Dedicated Cyclist
        • Your Room
        • Giant Kewpie
      • Issue Forty-eight, November 2013
        • Saving Jesus
        • Only One Good Reason to Get a Haircut
        • Katelyn
        • The Particular Human
        • The Grey Egg
        • Amazing Human Post-It Note
        • Gutted
      • Issue Forty-nine, December 2013
        • AetherHex
        • My Sunshine
        • The Sweeper of Flies
        • Zombies Near the Fence
        • Forest Thinker
    • 2014
      • Issue Fifty, January 2014
        • Ash Wednesday
        • Fox and Tiger
        • He Was, After All, a Gopher
        • Are You Man Or Aquatic Ectotherm?
        • Why’s Wally
        • The Blind Toast
      • Issue Fifty-one, February 2014
        • Raritan, New Jersey. 2012
        • Things That Float
        • My Horns Hurt
        • A Bad Case
        • Path of Stones
        • Carnecupulus; Dismissed Messenger of Cupid
      • Issue Fifty-two, March 2014
        • Little Monster
        • By Good Angels Tenanted
        • Joe’s Theory
        • The Memory Thief
        • The Scuttlebutt on Pluto
        • Revenge
      • Issue Fifty-three, April 2014
        • Del, We’re Sorry, Please Stop
        • Natural Birth
        • Them Oranges
        • The Strangler Fig Slide
        • Anguish
      • Issue Fifty-four, May 2014
        • The Many Incarnations of Blazer Chief
        • How to Wash a Magic Carpet
        • With Spider
        • Relics
        • The Dog with the Rhinestone Eyes
        • Reading Between the Lines
      • Issue Fifty-five, June 2014
        • Tank Full of Fumes
        • San Francisco
        • . . . leave a message
        • Hurrah Boy
        • Robot 5: Rupert
      • Issue Fifty-six, July 2014
        • One Percent Rumsfoord
        • The King of Green Street
        • Anton Toller, The Man with an Upside-Down House
        • Pest Arrest
        • Moth Man
        • Serling
      • Issue Fifty-seven, August 2014
        • Behold the Monster in Repose
        • Return of the Feathered Octopus
        • Tricks Man
        • Once They Sainted a Mermaid
        • The Dragon
        • Pterodactyl
        • Gargoyles
        • Dinosaur World
        • Myakka Skunk Ape
        • The Dragon Slayer
        • Gorgon
        • Green Man
        • Δείτε τι θέλετε; Θέλετε να βλέπετε
        • Xenophobe
        • Ring Rock Riot
        • Birds Attack Man on Bike
      • Issue Fifty-eight, September 2014
        • The Perfect Zen Dance of the Boulder
        • Substitute Angel
        • Two Haiku
        • Unexpecting
        • Back garden, 2 AM
        • Even
        • Question Mark —
        • Wrong Dream
        • Two Poems
        • Walvis
      • Issue Fifty-nine, October 2014
        • Gräfenberg Fulfillment
        • Cold Spell
        • Long Term Unemployment
        • The Baby
        • The First Last Mermaid Porn Queen
        • Karaoke for the Deaf
        • Horror House
      • Issue Sixty, November 2014
        • Birth of A Surrealist
        • Bitches Be Like 5 Seconds
        • Two Poems
        • The Right Bait
        • We Burn the Formal Scarecrow
        • Butterfly Loop
        • Elephant Head
      • Issue Sixty-one, December 2014
        • Asbury Park in the Off-Season
        • The Festival of the Lamb
        • haiku
        • Two Tanka
        • The Lottery Game
        • In Memoriam
        • Dragasaurus Rex
      • The Special Issue for Eirik and Monica
        • They Call Him Bigfoot Avert Your Eyes No Autographs Please
        • The View from the Backseat
        • Lifeguard
        • Think Tank
        • My First Curse Word
        • Vital: A Love Story
        • The Devil Smiles Again
    • 2015
      • Issue Sixty-two, January 2015
        • Date
        • Terrible Scenes of Mutilation
        • Burp
        • Brontosaurus
        • Stone Umbrella
      • Issue Sixty-three, February 2015
        • The Action Never Stops at Action Park
        • The Nature of Johnny’s Medicine
        • The Girl with Black, Black Hair and The Golden Snake
        • Built To Last
        • Death At Burger King
        • The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventure
        • I Am a Skin and a Lotion Soaking Up Myself
      • Issue Sixty-four, March 2015
        • The Little Duck
        • Hunger
        • We Break Up in Multiple Universes
        • In the Stairwell
        • Divine Message
        • The People Outside Your House are NOT Monsters
        • Drowning
      • Issue Sixty-five, April 2015
        • The People of the Pit
        • Mandelbrot Chaos
        • Self-Condemned in the Tunnelbana
        • Conversational Distance
        • My Friends Live on My Bed
        • Sacrificial Lamb
      • Issue Sixty-six, May 2015
        • Obelisk
        • Two Prose Poems
        • The Last Breakfast of Corporal Ashton the Blessed
        • A Woman in Tech
        • Jasper’s Gone Fishing
        • New York Noir #9, ink and wash, 2013
      • Issue Sixty-seven, June 2015
        • The Woman on the Couch
        • The Smell of Green Onions
        • How to Write About Sand
        • Baby Calzones
        • The Blue Spruce
        • Hunger
      • Issue Sixty-eight, July 2015
        • Riding the Hog
        • Because Sometimes Little Boys Do Not Listen to Their Mothers
        • Alchemy
        • Old Bill and the Zombie Stripper
        • Wall
        • Dino Scraps
      • Issue Sixty-nine, August 2015
        • The Incident at Ong’s Hat
        • Yoel the Chickenkeeper
        • Transition
        • Spawn
        • Scorpion Midnight
        • Western Dark
        • An Open Mind: frog with exposed brain in formaldehyde
      • Issue Seventy, September 2015
        • When the Bees Came
        • Sue Nguyen Sees No Ghosts
        • No One Died on the Moon
        • Our Lady of Fire
        • Loveteeth
        • Japanese Snowy OctoBunny LULU, porcelain doll
      • Issue Seventy-one, October 2015
        • Where’s the Best BBQ in This Town?
        • Nothing Contributes So Much to Tranquilize the Mind as a Steady Purpose
        • Fingers
        • Paper Cities
        • A Taste of Fame
        • Weed
      • Issue Seventy-two, November 2015
        • From Sedna’s Hands
        • Dishroom Supervisor
        • In Response to the News
        • Heatseeker
        • We Cannot Become What We Need to Be by Remaining What We Are
        • French Bulldog
      • Issue Seventy-three, December 2015
        • A Limp
        • The Dream Before the Frog
        • The Dairy Aisle
        • Something About Nudity in the Kitchen
        • The 4 Star Theatre
        • Inventory of the World
        • Nun and Whore
    • 2016
      • Issue Seventy-four, January 2016: The Sherlock Holmes Issue
        • Sexing the Detective
        • Bohemian Soul
        • Killing Sherlock
        • A Year in Sherlocku
        • The Adventure of the Etheric Projection
      • Issue Seventy-five, February 2016
        • Spirit of the Bidet
        • Two poems
        • Lady Zubaida’s Maid
        • Lessons in Lepidoptery
        • Two poems
        • Visitation
        • Lina
      • Issue Seventy-six, March 2016
        • The Pendulum
        • Imperfect, Appalachian She in Acrylic
        • Dinah Shore Visits CBGB in Preparation for Her Interview with Iggy Pop, 1977
        • Life on Mars?
        • The Prisoner
        • 8 Ball
        • Want
      • Issue Seventy-seven, April 2016
        • My Papa, He Made Me a Frankenstein
        • What You Deserve
        • At the Old Ball Game
        • Omen
        • How They Lost Us
        • Everything That Matters in Life and Death
        • Nick and Nora
      • Issue Seventy-eight, May 2016
        • Magnets of Faith and Knowing
        • Dream Hard On
        • What Feasts Might Follow
        • Zoned
        • I Give It Six Months
        • Luminary
        • Of Mice and Rats
      • Issue Seventy-nine, June 2016
        • Dry Bucket
        • The Binge Watcher
        • Jezebel Behind the Cosmetics Counter at Macys
        • Dr. Bruce
        • Stitch
      • Issue Eighty, July 2016
        • So, Below
        • Mr. Senthil Chooses Love
        • Lenny
        • Provision
        • The Pieced Together Pet
      • Issue Eighty-one, August 2016
        • hinky man
        • The Banana Festival
        • Tiny Gods
        • Queen of the Moon
        • Fire Breather
      • Issue Eighty-two, September 2016
        • Itch Meat
        • Heads
        • City, this Baltimore
        • The Edge of the Universe
        • Lunar Condor
      • Issue Eighty-three, October 2016
        • Here Fishing
        • Jefferson Davis’s Six Degrees of Separation from Kevin Bacon: The Real Story
        • The Salwar
        • Double-Strength Demon Dogs
        • Infanta
      • Issue Eighty-four, November 2016
        • Hyena, Hyena
        • The Fortissimo Peacock
        • Coldcut
        • The Elixir Witch
        • Pollo: 43rd and Chestnut, July to October, 2015
        • The One That Got Away
    • 2017
      • Issue Eighty-five, December 2016/January 2017
        • Gonzo Feline Dream
        • And a Time to Die
        • Mary Worth
        • The Bowls, the Buttons, and the Baskets
        • Mutually Agreed Upon
        • Georgie
        • Dead Reclining
      • First week after the election
      • Issue Eighty-six, February 2017
        • The Scandalous Banality of Edward the Normal Boy
        • All Praise the Night
        • The Goon Who Won
        • The Postman’s Wedding
        • This is Our Constellation
      • Issue Eighty-seven, March 2017
        • Snowball Wants to Go to Outer Space
        • We’re Not Dangerous
        • Were It So Easy
        • Save Us/Take Me
      • Issue Eighty-eight, April 2017
        • Moonpickers
        • Violence on Thursday
        • Sergeant Cuff names a rose ‘Catherine Earnshaw’
        • FTONA
        • Rope
      • Issue Eighty-nine, May 2017
        • What You Don’t Hear
        • An Invitation, and Virgil
        • The Silverware Club
        • Whitechapel
        • The Day the Circus Died
        • Unity
      • Issue Ninety, June 2017
        • Fifty Burghers
        • Two Poems
        • The Next Great Cowboy Poet
        • Prior to a Burning a Dodge Dynasty Falling With Grace
        • Android #3
      • Issue Ninety-one, July 2017
        • What Child is This
        • Two Poems
        • Thought Fox
        • The Air Conditioner
        • The Incident Above Delta Vega
      • Issue Ninety-two, August 2017: The Victorian Mash-Up Issue
        • In Which Liz Frankenstein Lives, Makes New Friends, Saves Nikola Tesla, and Fixes What She Can
        • Call Me Little Woman
        • Dynamics
        • The Satanic. Satan Sowing Tares
      • Issue Ninety-three, September 2017
        • Change
        • What Big Brains You Have
        • The House by the Banyan Tree
        • Stay a Little While
        • Kneel
      • Issue Ninety-four, October 2017
        • Midnight Plus Thirty
        • Free Association
        • The Man With No Outlines
        • Heavenly Creatures
        • The Unobserved Cat
      • Issue Ninety-five, November 2017
        • Take Me
        • After Lunch
        • Kafka in Paradise
        • The birds are stealing my dreams
        • UFO
      • Issue Ninety-six, December 2017
        • Villa de Leyva
        • The Monster Bazaar
        • Chick
        • References
        • Panic
    • 2018
      • Issue Ninety-seven, January 2018
        • Jumpers
        • The Lights Are the Eyes of Animals
        • Travis in Hollywood
        • Venetian Ink
        • Einstein Owl
      • Issue Ninety-eight, February 2018
        • Socrates the Frog
        • The Man in Front of Our House
        • Beautiful Mite
        • The Last Ride
        • Untitled
      • Issue Ninety-nine, March 2018
        • The Stenographer
        • Puffer
        • The Lady of the House
        • Strange Affliction
        • Welcome to the Surreal
      • Issue One Hundred, April 2018
        • The Giraffe Whispers Human Words
        • Different Strokes
        • SuckMyDick7: A Ghost Story
        • We Will Walk the Earth Together, As Bipedal Hominoids, Hand in Hand
        • A Little Death
        • Always Leave Them Wanting More
        • The Falconer
      • Issue One Hundred and One, July 2018
        • A Legend Is Born
        • These Things — They Just Happen
        • Creaturehood in Contra Costa County
        • Lar-a-bowl
        • Stardumb
        • That Buzzing in Your Ear
        • Untitled
      • Issue One Hundred and Two, October 2018
        • The First Week in July
        • Yutu
        • The Distillation Process
        • Indeterminate Drives
        • Adaptation
        • Untitled (chair)
    • 2019
      • Issue 103, January 2019
        • A late night thought
        • A Statue of a Crazed Horse
        • Tag
        • Takeover
        • Abecedarian on Drinking with Indians
        • Life in the Sky Circa 1998
        • The Secret Life of Randy
        • A Rose’s Reckoning
        • Earthly and Immediate Causes
        • Garysaurus
      • Issue 104, April 2019
        • Angler
        • Changing
        • Big Problems
        • 12.17.18
        • Adolescent
        • Zora and the Zombie
        • Pony Boy
      • Issue 105, July 2019
        • The Shuffler
        • Quantum Summer
        • Birthday 10
        • What Breaks Us Is What Separates Us from the Animals
        • The Justice of Foxes
        • Triple Moons
        • Crazy Knights
        • Keyhole #584
      • Issue 106, October 2019
        • The Wolf Who Was Late
        • How the Ninja Turtles Almost Got Me Killed
        • They being (being there)
        • Chips and Cheers
        • How to Pull a Coin Out of an Ear
        • Throw Yourself Across the Earth
        • Untitled
    • 2020
      • Issue 107, January 2020
        • People Who Live in Invisible Houses
        • Ferryman
        • Recalling the Creation Account
        • Heliophobes at Night
        • Admission to the Burning Ruins — 10 Cents
        • Beyond the Bardo
        • Space
      • Issue 108, April 2020
        • Weightless
        • Do Sacrifices Dream of Empathy?
        • Coiled
        • The Youngest Cannibal Returns to Texas for the Holidays After Her First Semester of College
        • Three Scifaiku
        • Ellen
        • Every single hand is just a tree
      • Issue 109, July 2020
        • The Spare Child
        • Drawing an Eyebrow
        • In the lands of landfill lords
        • Amid the Frolicking Penguins
        • The Yellowbird House
        • Magic Wand
        • Mind Over Matter
      • Issue 110, October 2020
        • Bayonne Bridge
        • The Identity of Indiscernibles
        • About People of Glass and Stone
        • Broadside
        • haiku
        • Rise and with the Valkyries Fly
    • 2021
      • Issue 111, January 2021
        • At Stone Harbor
        • Night Diner
        • Unemployment
        • Diamond
        • A Locked Room Mystery
        • The Mesh
        • Untitled (cave)
      • Issue 112, April 2021
        • Stasis
        • Fangs
        • Tanka in Half-Light
        • To the person who stabbed me while I was sitting on my fire escape
        • Over the Board
        • Futuristic Funerals
        • Window Girl Alone
      • Issue 113, July 2021
        • Hassan Believed
        • Salisbury Frolics
        • Peaches
        • Necromancing Orson Welles
        • Body Bag
        • All Alright Now
        • Graffiti
      • Issue 114, October 2021
        • Inertia of the Noon Wraith
        • Might Have to Lose It
        • There’s nothing I love better than Jesus
        • The Garbanzo Gangster
        • Medley for My Banshee
        • The Songbird Thing
        • Dark Monster
    • 2022
      • Issue 115, January 2022
        • Little Cartoon
        • The Start of a Bad Joke
        • Subway
        • Inside the Last Cinnamon Raisin Bagel
        • She
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Hand Rose

Bianca Blauth

“Hand Rose,” by Bianca Blauth

BIANCA BLAUTH is a self-taught illustrator on Instagram at @blauth___.

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