ISSUE 34: Summer 2016

Introduction

Weird! by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

Fiction

Hands to Heaven by Heather Birrell

BUOY by Ellen van Neerven

The Beauty of the Walk On by Trish Salah

Rosario’s Jewel Box by Sarah Maria Medina

La Puerta by Nehal El-Hadi

Getting Rid of the Bernsteins by M.W. Johnston

Complicit by Khalida Venus Hassan

Introduction

A Space for the Aggro by Sonnet L’Abbé

Poetry

No by George Murray

Two Poems by Stevie Howell

Two Poems by John Wall Barger

Two Ways of Saying It by Barry Dempster

Two Poems by Tanis MacDonald

rubber soul: the dietician by Jane Eaton Hamilton

architecture I by Kyle Kinaschuk

A Creation Myth Suddenly Gone Awry by Maria Matuscak

Two Poems by Nicole Chin

(cryptofauna) of blue girl by Steven Artelle

Two Poems by Jake Byrne

Marmota by Lauren Marshall

Yellow Fever by Natalie Wee

Femina Pendula Rubrum by Lorin Medley

Two Poems by Jill Talbot

Essays

Punching Like a Girl by Krista Foss

Comparative Zoology by Sunny Chan

Interviews

A Conversation on Andrew Forbes’s The Utility of Boredom (Invisible Publishing, 2016) by Myra Bloom, E Martin Nolan, and Joseph Thomas

An Interview with D.D. Miller (“The Derby Nerd”) and Monica “Monichrome” Mitchell-Taylor by Meghan Harrison

An Elegiac Conversation Between Grant Stonehouse and Len Carey by Michael Trussler

Reviews

“LOLing with Claws”: A Review of Liz Howard’s Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent by Brecken Hancock

“War without a Name:” A Review of Mercè Rodoreda’s War, So Much War by Amanda Sarasien

“Solo Protests Against Solitude”: A Review of Steven Heighton’s The Waking Comes Late by Myra Bloom

“Pragmatic Complications of Perfections:” A Review of Klara du Plessis’s Wax Lyrical by Aaron Boothby

Yellow Fever

by Natalie Wee

Natalie Wee is the author of OUR BODIES & OTHER FINE MACHINES (Words Dance Publishing, 2016) and ONCE IN A BLUE MOON (BookThug, 2018). She is the Associate Fiction Editor at Broken Pencil Magazine. Her first book is now available on her website.

After Franny Choi

Sky, look how fine
this flesh turned
dartboard / pin
up / bomb
shelter / emergency room.
Girls like me turn jasmine.
A delicate flower asks to be picked.
An unknown country wants
to be besieged.
I wear this colour as a mountain
wears snow.
Stand over me & see
the sun corona the world,
bright as a dragon’s eye.
Press that flag inside me
& you will taste my homeland
sweet & sour as burning women.


Natalie Wee is the author of OUR BODIES & OTHER FINE MACHINES (Words Dance Publishing, 2016) and ONCE IN A BLUE MOON (BookThug, 2018). She is the Associate Fiction Editor at Broken Pencil Magazine. Her first book is now available on her website.

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