ISSUES | summer 2022
45.2 (Summer 2022): “Rescue Me”
Inside: New fiction from Caroline Casper, Sam Dunnington, Tim Erwin, Nur Kahn, and Amy Stuber. Essays by Christopher Kempf and Daniel J. Waters. Poetry from Davis McCombs, Kelan Nee, and Rachel Richardson. Also: Curio Cabinet on the marketing of Amelia Earhart, Art Feature on Dodo in Berlin, and a review from Sam Pickering.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Features
Jul 27 2023
Foreword: The New Realism
The New Realism I sometimes wonder what the dominant trend in literature is going to be called. Names for artistic periods and movements are hardly definitive, but they are useful… read more
Fiction
Jul 27 2023
The Last Summer
The Last Summer Amy Stuber Several doctors had told him he was going to die, that it was a matter of months and not years. He was young for it,… read more
Fiction
Jul 27 2023
A Fate Like That
A Fate Like That Nur Kahn The bedroom felt vast and cold. The landlady showing her the place made excuses for the emptiness, something about renovations and there not being… read more
Fiction
Jul 27 2023
Sneaker Waves
Sneaker Waves Caroline Casper Also the sea tosses itself and breaks itself, and should any sleeper fancying that he might find on the beach an answer to his doubts.… read more
Fiction
Jul 27 2023
The Bottomlands
The Bottomlands Tim Erwin Derwin was sitting out at the end of his dock, attempting to fix the clutch in his stalled-out Evinrude, when he noticed something floating in the… read more
Fiction
Jul 27 2023
The Number of Things in the City at Night
The Number of Things in the City at Night Sam Dunnington When Meredith sat down to breakfast, the band called her on speaker from Portland. Their van had broken down.… read more
Poetry
Jul 27 2023
2 Poems by Davis McCombs
Terrain I turned over the first shovelful of soil in our first garden the summer Carolyn and I were married, and this January, in a cold, sunlit greenhouse I couldn’t… read more
Poetry
Jul 27 2023
4 Poems by Kelan Nee
Felling The girl in Dickey Bub working the register looked at me like I was food. She couldn’t have been older than fifteen. She watched me leave and drive away.… read more
Poetry
Jul 27 2023
5 Poems by Rachel Richardson
Conservation Theory Turns out, if you love a forest, you’re supposed to live in a small house. You’re supposed to accept your grandmother’s hand-me-down sewing rocker instead of snatching… read more
Nonfiction
Jul 27 2023
These Ithacas
These Ithacas Christopher Kempf Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey. Without her you wouldn’t have set out. She has nothing left to give you now. And if you… read more
Curio Cabinet
Jul 27 2023
Curio Cabinet: Selling Amelia Earhart
Selling Amelia Earhart In 1928, a year after Charles Lindbergh’s solo flight across the Atlantic, New York publisher George Putnam hoped to sponsor the first woman to make a similar… read more
Nonfiction
Jul 27 2023
Breathe for Me
Breathe for Me Daniel James Waters It is already warm in the early morning hours of May the sixth in 1955. A young couple walks slowly up the scrubbed marble… read more
Art
Jul 27 2023
Dodo: The Berlin Years
Dodo: The Berlin Years Kristine Somerville In 1923, when she turned sixteen, Dörte Clara Wolff, known since childhood as “Dodo,” was expected to pursue a profession. She had grown up… read more
Features
Jul 20 2023
Rich Bright Days: Six Writers on Nature and Life
Rich Bright Days: Six Writers on Nature and Life Sam Pickering Thorpe Moeckel, Down by the Eno, Down by the Haw. Mercer University Press, 2019. 129 pages. $16.00. Paperback. … read more