If I were to write a morality tale about America’s counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan—something in line with Ed…
Issue 050: March 2021
New Fiction from Susan Taylor Chehak: “With a Whimper”
This isn’t the first time that man has visited this cemetery, and he supposes it isn’t going to be the last. As a chi…
New Fiction from Gregory Johnsen: “Odds Are”
1. Heads Years later, long after the bodies had been pieced back together, after they’d been bagged and buried, after…
New Poetry from Tyler Vaughn Hayes: “They even pipe it into the bookstore,” “His first time: flight by ropes,” “The edict,” “Rappel annuel”
They even pipe it into the bookstore It’s never quite silent, though there’s no lowing, not from God nor his glutted …
New Nonfiction from J. Malcolm Garcia: “The Forced Disappearance of Sombath Somphone”
Ng Shui Meng speaks of her husband Sombath Somphone in the present tense, with a firm matter-of-fact tone about his d…