2014
CRONY DEUX
CRONY DEUX In favor… Fiction by: Amy Butcher, Colin Dwyer, Erik Evenson, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Josh Lieb, J.C. Reyes. Poetry by:...
Josh Lieb: “Review: Aunt Betty’s House”
( ) zero stars The critic endures a thousand-and-one annoyances whilst plying his trade, but none is more common (or...
Dan Beachy-Quick: “Family Poem”
A flower today I was sitting green flew between my face and the screen I didn’t have to imagine my...
Mark Haskell Smith: “Nigerian prince…”
Nigerian prince I know your bank account is a metaphor wormy and riddled and fraught but like Natalia, the Russian...
V.V. Ganeshananthan: “Shutdown Country”
In the third year of the shutdown—on what, when we were counting, we recognized as the 1,234st day, and although...
Lewis Robinson: “God Dog”
I strapped a tank to my back and dropped backwards off the side of Andy’s wooden lobster boat, Dovekey. I...
Christina M. Rau: “Travel Problem 1.”
Train X leaves the station 12 PM. Track 2. Heading East. It gains velocity at a rate of 2 mph...
Amy Butcher: “A Couch is a Couch is Deception”
The problem with the breakup was not the breakup itself but the couch traded between them before it happened. This...
Thomas Mundt: “The Ribbon-Cutting”
Dixon Elementary was overachieving in the field of underperformance, according to the latest figures, so certain measures were taken to...
J.C. Reyes: “Paul Jean Paul’s ‘Reliable Write-In: The Making of Sitting Down‘”
He opened his door, and so I paid the price to get in. I wasn’t the only one. Critics from...
Erik Evenson: “Koans”
We’re in the dairy aisle of the super market and Mom says that she’s getting so old she can’t get...
Colin Dwyer: “A Brief Word about Your Birth”
Of course, back in those days we had no sounds for kisses. You know that shy little wink of sound...
Mieke Eerkens: “Three Sheets, No Wind”
Even I can see his hairy bare legs splayed carelessly across my white sheets have become grotesque. He says, he...
Eric Howard: “To the Terrace House”
It was good to see your guts knocked out enough to fill six truck containers and a new house rise...