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a literary journal in multiple timezones

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a literary journal in multiple timezones

May. 2024

Volume VII: 2017

Illustration by: Ben Kling

Volume VII: 2017

The following is an archive of work published

in the year 2017:

Care by Tim Raymond

A Space Cowgirl’s Book of Comfort Food Recipes by J.A. Pa

Parts of Us by Emory Harkins

The Purple Babyby Allison Kade

Girlfriend by Deirdre Coyle

Shrinkage by Millie Ho

In Case I Don’t Call by Bruce Johnson

The Wig by Kristen Iskandrian

Getting Out by Cedar Bowers

Young Ronnie in The Mirror be Cameron Stewart

You’re Gonna Scream When You Die by Joanna Valente

This Way Up by Angelica Zollo

Sustenance by Diana Wagman

Ossetra by Sean Bernard

We Were Professionals by Benito Vergara

The Scare by Joanna Pearson

Moneybags by Lee Relvas

The Mother, The Daughter, And The Holy Capitalist by Robin Richardson

Penis Bucket and Fried Chicken by Yoo Jin na

Vincent by Shane Jones

Divina by Jennifer Driscoll

Beacon  by Henry Hoke

Brownouts and Blackouts by Marta Evans

Crumbs by Melissa Ragsly

The Single Friend by Katie Flynn

Phantom Vibrate by Clare Sestanovich

Ron Eight by John Jodzio

Heart Lake by Rudrapriya Rahtore

An Aesthetics of Rat Bites by Stacy Hardy

Far Gone Conclusions by Hilary Leichter

Little Hippo by Mira M. Cohen

Skywalker from Belgium by Jonathan Crowl

The Soft No by Kimberly King Parsons

Kindling by Kerry Cullen

Lucky Frank by Jenny Xie

Carriers by Derek Mascarenhas

Absentees by Kenny Kelly

If You, Too, Know the Words to “Super Bass” by Shannon McLead

MEANWHILE by Sasha Fletcher

The Dog Sitter by Kristen Kearse

Quarry by Catherine Graham

Complex 2675: Issue One by Francine Cunningham

Coyote in the Blood by Seth Fischer

I Thought I Saw a Beautiful Boy by Mariah Stovall

Jeannie’s Ghost by Hanna Halperin

Palm by Natali Petricic

Fabric by Adam Sol

Complex 2675: Issue Three by Francine Cunningham

Wasted State by Lena Valencia

Complex 2675: Issue Four by Francine Cunningham

Complex 2675: Issue Two by Francine Cunningham

Only Your Own Work by Madhur Anand

Variety and Illusion by Lyndsey Ellis

Missing Years by Nicholas Mancusi

Fourth of July by R.D. Williams

Rubicon by Matthew Sullivan

Where We Are Right Now by Alexandra Kessler

Frightland by Mary Breaden

The Wolf’s Head by Christine Vines

Polyphyletic Double: Kidnapping, Murder, and Resistance in Post Trump America by Sarah Wang

Dziadek by Monika Woods

Failed Fetish by Niko Sonnberger

Ache by Rachel Ann Brickner

Romance Language by Amir Adam

La Piñata by Marie Ayung Lee

Q&A by Megan Cummins

We Wives by Christine Hennessey

Tides by Kristen Sandberg Lunstrum

Half Abstraction, Half Object by Frank Motesonti

The Impossible Self Stephen Langlois

Eat Me When I Die by Maggie Su

Jack and Meg White in 2011 (An Alternate History) by Monica Pacheco

The Modern Stone Age by Luke Geddes

T-Rex by Susan Berman

At the Gates of the Kingdom by Stephen Tuttle

Spying by Taylor Laren

The Fence by Richard Rosenbaum

The Wallaby by Corinne Manning

Back Home in Ida County by Katie Young Foster

A Dozen Stomachs by Tom Thor Buchanan

The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs by Leah Schelbach

Jeanie by Taylor Lannamann

This Is Not from Outer Space by Becky Adnot Haynes

Can’t Dance by Erica Peplin

Bedroom Talk by Janessa Abrams

Too Much is Never Enough by Genevieve Hudson

Baby by Carol Quinn

At The Rodeo, At The Fair by Cole Nowicki

French Absolutism by Brandon Taylor

Her, Guts and All by R.S. Deeren

Today is Cool by Julia Mannell

White Walls by Darley Stewart

Boat Building by Cory Mimms

Flag Girl by Aram Mrjoian

Oysters by Aaron Burch

Gling Gling Gling by Bud Smith

Hunted by Laura Chow Reeve

Lover Number Nineteen by Alina Grabowski

Invisible Woman by Michelle Sierra Laffitte

Souterrain by Helen McClory

The Conductor by Julia Coursey

Ada, or When It Was Safe to Stay Dark by David Burr Gerrard

The Thin, Frozen Lake by Matt Socia

Doreen by Margaret Adams

Hunger, Hands, Nails by Anna Cabe

Heritage Theater by Rebecca Mckenna

Chinatown of My Dreams by Bonnie Chau

Orcas Terminal by Marcelle Heath

Paris with Mandy by Marcy Dermansky

The Tiger Stand by by Hunter Gagnon

Your Body Is Not A Lemon by Chelsea Bieker

Tactical Chunders by Courtney Sender

Silence Turned to Music by Ashley P. Taylor

Edited by: Joyland Editors
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