It’s been an interesting journey this time around, but we’re delighted to announce the Table of Contents for our sophomore issue—coming to this website on November 10!
In this issue, twenty-one artists from everywhere burn worlds to the ground in terrifyingly beautiful ways, featuring the following art, fiction and poetry:
Cover Art: Burning the Bitch’s Fence – Billy Bradshaw
In the Witch House — Chris Campeau
fairy ring — Clay McLeod Chapman
I Tell the Moon — Carol Despeaux Fawcett
Phantom Touch — Amar Benchikha
You Do the Hokey Pokey — Jay Abramowitz
Not Your Kid — Juleigh Howard-Hobson
Fish — Corin Scher
Seven Vignettes about Rats (Creative Nonfiction) — Kali Meister
A Plastic Life — Desirae Terrien
The Jet Black Knight — Lorna Wood
Extinction — Page Sullivan
Polka Dot — MK Roney
A Walk to the Pond — Elizabeth J. Coleman
Loose Ends — C.M. Saunders
Amy’s Game — Liam Hogan
Every Piece (is Sacred) — Hunter Liguore
No Regrets in New Jerusalem — Kaitlyn Downing
Carrion — Ellen Andersen
Staying Inside — Brandon Kawashima
Cactusland — R.A. Busby
You’ll be able to download your copy from our Issue Page here on Tuesday, November 10. Don’t forget the donate link! Our issues are always free of charge, but if you’d like to help us out—especially during these crazy times—we’d love it. We pay our artists $50 per piece, and that largely comes out of our pockets. Help us keep great art in the world—and others escape to 34 Orchard.
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Looking forward to it! Thanks again for all your help with the story.
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You are so welcome! We’re proud to feature your work!! Stay tuned. I’ll be sending out a letter to all of you shortly.
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I’m so excited!! Do you folks also have a print edition? I’m sorry if you mentioned this already.
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Hi! I’m excited too! No, we don’t have a print edition–however, the laid out PDF, when printed double-sided flipped on the long edge and bound, say, on a binding machine you’d typically find in an office, really works nicely. If you don’t have access to any of that, drop me a private email.
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This first issue was awesome. I can’t wait to get my (digital) hands on this one!
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Thank you, Priscilla! I DID get your email about helping out–I’ve just been so focused on so many projects all summer (plus Lyme Disease. That was fun. NOT. And I’m still dealing with it). I will respond to you shortly. Thank you for not giving up on me!! And I’ll be so excited to hear what you think of Issue 2!!
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Reblogged this on cmsaunders and commented:
I can’t wait for the world to read Loose Ends!
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Me neither! “Loose Ends” is a gem. During my proofing, I read it aloud. I had quite the captive audience at my day job today. My immediate supervisor really loved your piece! At that one point in the story when she figured out what was happening, she put her hands to her mouth and said, ‘oh my God!’
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