In Issue 14, twenty-one artists from everywhere—some returning, some new, and in a 34O first, one from Nepal—absorb the nature of shock: that lead ball in the chest and numbness in the legs and feet; that wandering through a dream landscape where sounds are muffled and sentences are only half audible. That tunnel vision and isolation, that I can’t believe it, where’s the liquor and candy and Add to Cart. That what do I do now and who am I and what’s going to happen to me, or even that I just don’t want to get up tomorrow.
Welcome to the house where the shaking’s over … but the settling has just begun … get your copy at https://34orchard.com/issue-14/ today!
COVER ART: Santa Walkup – Stacy Horn
In the Dark – Alyce Lomax
Hollow Pines – Elsie Raymond
The Support Group Meets in Sandra’s Kitchen – Louise Worthington
The Note – J. Kelly
Load Bearing – Bruce Thierry Cheung
The Shallow End – William Hall
Memory of Mycelia – Cyrus Green
It Clucks with Abandon – Eric J. Guignard
Being Polite – Sunayna Pal
The Scarecrow – Avery Zappone
The M-Mode Trace – Raymond Brunell
Disruption – Brenna Monaghan Behel
Human Bottleneck – Jack Powers
A Fairy Tale – Kaitlyn Downing
Pallbearers – Eve Naden
Blossom-End Rot – RJ Aurand
Hourglass – Michael Takeda
The Town in the Sky – Ayush Pokheral
Dust in homes is composed of about 20–50% dead skin cells. – Kathie Quinn Yang
The End of Murder – Karin Marvel McRae
The downloadable PDF is designed so that it can be printed on double-sided paper for easy reading like a print magazine. As always, the issue is free, but there is a donation link should you choose to contribute. And if you like what you’ve read, spread the word!
