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After the Move

Alyx Chandler

“Often,

southern hospitality turned out to be

a tall tale. When we didn’t go to church,

folks could be mean as mockingbirds.

Godzilla or Jesus Christ?

Megan Poe

“82 lines of iambic pantameter, written sometime between Byron’s lustful and fleeting affair with his half-sister, and his debilitating infatuation with a fellow choir boy, “Darkness” is the apocalypse poem that gores the beauty of the sublime. In the crooked symphony of Coleridge and Wordsworth’s aeolian lyres and dulcimers, “Darkness” is a heavy metal thrash.”

Shana Graham

Wanting

“Whispering: I planted you. Whispering, without disdain and even as I abstain: it’s good to want. Otherwise, buried wants are notorious for clawing their ways up from the mud pits of imagination, blue-lipped and raptor-eyed, ready for takedown.”

Abfillage, Three Pieces

Aluu Prosper Chigozie

Art & Hybrid

15 March 2026

Offer It Up

Mary Smith

 “Her words deposit a worm inside me that grows until it
crawls out of my open, unspeaking mouth. None of us will look at her".”

Supplication in My Mother’s Yard

Leila Farjami

“The Shah’s gaze

glows from my grandmother’s mantle.

Later, in America, Father says:

We should have left sooner.”

Fugue Literary Journal

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Issue 65

Spring 2025


 
 

Featuring

Andy Butter, Teresa Carmody, Hollie Dugas, Noah Francis, Jen Frantz, Katie Garcia, Rasha Lama, Roy Lowenstein, Rebecca McKee, Brooke Middlebrook, Austin Miles, Olivia Muenz, Seth Peterson, Jessica Petrow-Cohen, Riley Richards, Anna Schachner, Robyn Schelenz, Melissa Strilecki, Thea Swanson, Harriet Truscott, Evan Wang, Jordan Williamson

Cover Art

Alana Solin

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