LETTER
PROSE
My Parents Have Forgotten I Was Raised on Their Farm by Jaffa Aharonov
Elegies & Theories by Andy Fogle
How to Properly Mourn a Celebrity Death by Roxane Gay
The Man from the Circus by Ben Spivey
Every Day You'll Get Up and Got to Work by Kyle Winkler
POETRY
The Family, There is Dinner & From Cut-Out Pain by Jennifer Denrow
Asparagus and Possibly Corn and then for Dessert & Mute Button by Maggie Ginestra
I Met You by Joseph Goosey
What's Improper About Wanting the Feral by Kit Kennedy
Maybe It Was New Mexico, Purgatory & Purgartory by Jay Thompson
ART
The Unfinished Plan for Algiers & Escape from Capetown by Kelda Martensen
FINITO, HIDE THE DANGER & BROS. by Jason Vivona
FOLIO: THIS IS NOT MY SPECIALITY
For the debut issue's Assignment, we asked writers and artists to embrace the concept of "This is Not My Speciality." This was, intentionally, wide open -- an opportunity for writers and artists to interrogate their own processes, products and habits...and then to explode them. In following, we present to you two phoenix-from-ash delights.
Jeffrey The Whale & The Theory Of Awesome by Joe Collins
A "poet by trade" presents his first-ever short story.
Torso Falls by Scott Alden
In trying to undermine his habits, this visual artist avoided hard, strong lines and faces. He used crayons, and watched There's Something About Mary the entire time he was working on it.