Issue 15
Fall 2020
EXPERIMENTAL & HYBRIDS
DESPY BOUTRIS
Recovery
THAD DEVASSIE
Something Historic
EPIPHANY FERRELL
Places I Have Peed
DOUGLAS KEARNEY
Ol Nepenthe Home
TRINITY FRITZ LAWRENCE
Notes on Humanity
KRISTEN RENEE MILLER
Three Mistranslations
MARIANNA PARANYAN
Tale Of The Sahara Ocean: In Three Languages
JOSHUA WETJEN Experimental & Hybrids Editors’ Choice
Mouse Bodies
POETRY
ALLISON ADAIR
People Don’t Know What We Mean When We Say “Us”
Rush On, These Cows Aren’t Dancing
Self-Portrait as Aging, with Vertigo and a Singing Six-Year-Old
SARAH BLACKMAN
At the Grocery Store
Babcocks
Word of the Day
YUAN CHANGMING
All Heart Rooted: Lesson One in Chinese Characters
REBECCA LEHMANN Poetry Editors’ Choice
Dawn
Moses
Ok, Kids
PETER LEIGHT
City of Absence
I Think I’m Recovering
Mutual Time
SHAHÉ MANKERIAN
A Condolence Card
BECKA MARA MCKAY
Meanwhile, the Wolves
M.A. SCOTT
[Grief, little sister]
[Magic, little sister]
ELLIE WHITE
My Bitstrip Avatar Waxes Philosophical
FICTION
CHARLES BOOTH
Free Drinks for War Heroes
KIRA CLARK
The Erotic
JOEL FISHBANE
Paper to Wood
SHENA MCAULIFFE Fiction Editors’ Choice
The Other Matter
MANNIKA MISHRA
A Month of Sundays
KATHERINE SINBACK
After the After
CREATIVE NONFICTION
THOMAS BADYNA
Of Lucky Ducks and Kingdom Come
AUDREY T. CARROLL Creative Nonfiction Editors’ Choice
Gorgoneion: A Chorus
SI N GRIFFITHS
Writing Boudica
ANASTASIA JILL
Fat Girl with an Eating Disorder
ALICE LOWE
Pescatarian
JENNIFER JEANNE MCARDLE
Living With Creepy, Crawly Things
MIRACLE MONOCLE COMPETITIONS
JEFF RUSSELL Winner of the Miracle Monocle Award for Innovative Writing
Selections from an Untitled Poem in Three Voices
ERNEST O. ÒGÚNYẸMÍ Winner of the Miracle Monocle Award for Young Black Writers
Tilt
BEE MORRIS Runner-Up for the Miracle Monocle Award for Young Black Writers
Landscape with Alternate Ending
MIRACLE MONOCLE REVIEWS
JEN FAWKES’S MANNEQUIN AND WIFE: STORIES
Reviewed by Hannah Robinson
ERIC FREEZE’S FRENCH DIVE: LIVING MORE WITH LESS IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
Reviewed by Christina Woosley
ROBIN GOW’S OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL DEGENERACY
Reviewed by Brady Alexander
VISUAL ART
ALY FISHER
A Warning
Woman with Self-Esteem
Black Sheep
VAN LANIGH
From the Chasing Rainbows Series
ELIZABETH STETLER
Between
Permeate
Remaining