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A literary magazine named after the Vedic god of fire

A literary magazine named after the Vedic god of fire

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2014

Online Exclusives

Contents

Fiction Essays Poetry Conversations Reviews

Fiction

Mrs. Carbonate, Mrs. Cuttlefish, Mrs. Conundrum

by Anthony Caleshu

Nobody Else Gets to Be Crazy When You’re Being Crazy

by David Ebenbach

The Illuminations

by Terry Eicher

The Decision Maker

by Rupprecht Mayer

Translated from the German by Rupprecht Mayer

Essays

In Gaza We Are Not Okay

by Najlaa Attallah

Translated from the Arabic by Andrew Leber

My Father’s Last Story

by Mike Anderson Campbell

Mother’s Day, 2013

by Gabriel Heller

Live Demonstrations of Love

by Caitlin Horrocks

A Non-Sentimental Journey

by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough

by Dinah Lenney

by Rosalie Moffett

Introduction: A Conversation between Robert Gardner and Peter Matthiessen

Poetry

The Killing Time

by J. Mae Barizo

and today Proust paints distance

by Mary Buchinger

How Precise, Joy and Melancholy

by Mary Buchinger

The Doubtful Place

by Averill Curdy

Girls Girls Girls

A Photograph of Her Showering

by Elizabeth Langemak

Small-Town Stations

by Luljeta Lleshanaku

Translated from the Albanian by Ani Gjika

M

by Laura Glen Louis

V

by Laura Glen Louis

by Leslie McGrath

Voices from Outside, Lit from Inside

Lost Love Lounge

by Cassie Pruyn

Maine Morning, Age 5

by Cassie Pruyn

by Rebekah Remington

by Rebekah Remington

by Scott Ruescher

My Father’s Poison

by Carrie Shipers

Conversations

A Conversation between Robert Gardner and Peter Matthiessen (video)

by Robert Gardner

The Aural Heft of Words & “Ovid in America”: A Conversation with Averill Curdy

by Jacqueline Kolosov

Reviews

Writing Memory, Writing the Self: Autofiction in Aubry’s No One

by Max Vanderhyden

2014

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