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Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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May/June 2018

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Volume XI, Number 3

Poetry

Philip Brooks

We’re Building Trees Again
Sally Rosen Kindred

When You Call My Body an Odd Thing
Tim Liardet

A Future Robot Considers the Human Heart; A Future Bot Projects onto Itself a Likeness of Darwin; A Future Bot Addresses the Mob Boss Released from Jail at a Hundred Years of Age
Dave Lucas

War of the Worlds

Nonfiction

Kimberly Grey

Excerpt from A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing
Sara Michas-Martin

Also Born

Fiction

Beatriz Bracher translated by Edgar Garbelotto

Davi
Robert Long Foreman

Guy Stuff
Jennifer Genest

The Let-Go Threshold
Jennifer Murphy

Wedding Story
Michel Vachey translated by S.C. Delaney and Agnès Potier

Playfulness, or The Wasted Land
Désirée Zamorano

The Upholsterer