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Late Nights at Full Moon Records
Sarah Edmonds
After months of sleeping out of his car and surviving on vending machine snacks from the YMCA, 19-year-old Lane finally...
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The Berlin Wall
David Leo Rice
A family of outsider artists roams the American interior in search of the New Jerusalem in David Leo Rice's new...
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Sleepingfish XX
Cal A Mari
20th anniversary issue featuring work by Steven Alvarez, Rosaire Appel, Ali Aktan Aşkın, Nat Baldwin, Niles Baldwin, Maeve Barry, Chiara...
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Survived By
Stephanie Niu
Chapbook Prize Winner, Spring 2024
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Sister Golden Calf
Colleen Burner
"In shiveringly beautiful prose, Colleen Burner maps a wild voyage into grief, love, and radical forms of kinship. Their novel...
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What Happened Was
Katharine Haake
In Katharine Haake's new eco-fable, What Happened Was, emissaries from the post-world return to us with accounts of a future...
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Summertime in the Emergency Room
David Nutt
Nine stories about befuddled loners, estranged friends, and detonated families, all hobbled by various acts of self-sabotage, yet still they...
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Wire Mothers
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Maybe This Is What I Deserve
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Winner of the 2022 Fiction Chapbook Contest, selected by Isle McElroy Tucker Leighty-Phillips builds a series of mythologies; of childhood,...
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Flight of the Diamond Smugglers
Matthew Gavin Frank
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