Endings and Beginnings
Spring Summer 2021, Vol. 64, No. 2
Eilis O’Neal: Editor’s Note
Fiction
Sruthi Narayanan: “A Meal For Violets”
Andrew Gretes: “The Phenomenology of Sex Dolls”
Titus Chalk” “. -..- -.-. …. .- -. –. .”
Michael Nye: “Under Bright Iowa Lights”
Jemimah Wei: “Bleach”
Creative Nonfiction
Katie Culligan “What the X-Ray Sees”
Kirsten L. Parkinson: “The Family Cremains”
Poetry
Daniel Lusk: “Overture: A Poem before Eden“
Chelsea Wagenaar: “Ensoulment“
Sammy Greenspan: “I am carving a dragon boat to carry you to the other side”
John Moessner: “Memory with Duplicate Keys and Flowers”
Richard K. Kent: “Secret Passage,“ “Blue Shed, Ohio”
Grant Clauser: “Life List”
John A. Nieves: “Linguistics”
Michael T. Lawson: “Death as an Inadequate Metaphor for the Absorbing State of a Markov Chain”
Chelsea Bayouth: “A Woman Who Loved My Uncle”
Jack Stewart: Renoir’s Young Woman Arranging an Earring”
Emma Aylor: “False Spring,” “Dislocation”
Mary Ann Hudson: “Wortcunner”
Suzie Eckl: “Gussie Remembers Winter in Circle City,” “Gussie With Her Sisters on the Winter Solstice,”“Gussie Goes to the Diggings I,” “Gussie Goes to the Diggings II”
Magpie Miller: “Plesiosaurus Josephii,” “Type Specimen,” “The Last Time We Quarreled”
Christen Noel Kauffman: “How Gods Are Made,” “Imagine How They Sound”
Carol Guess & Rochelle Hurt: “Nonwife: 2020”
Jane Zwart: “The Conclusions”
David Faldet: “Millennium”
Rebecca Lehmann: “Cabin”
Josh Luckenbach: “After the Quarantine Ends”
Trevor Moffa: “Fried Dough,” “On the Accrual of Vacation Days”
Russell Brakefield: “The Fiberglass Man”
Pam Baggett: “Foundations,” “Above the Bones”
Jesse Wallis: “Last Man Standing”
Adam Chiles: “Clearing out my Father’s Studio”
Ronda Piszk Broatch: “Giving You Away in Pieces”
Mamie Morgan: “Everyone I’ve Danced with is Dead.”
Jasmine Elizabeth Smith” [Jim Imagines He & Charley Patton Pick a Boweavil from Backyard Chicago Crop]”
Rilla Askew: “A Beginning to the End of Silence”
Hari B Khalsa: “Ode (more like a rant) to whatever is going to happen next”
Alex Simões: “trans formas são”/”trans form action”
Anna Lowe Weber: “Another Fish Has Died”
Kira Trainor: “Stones to Sink the Cradle,” “Fragments of a Constellation”
Anne Pierson Wiese: “Dust”
Bethany Schultz Hurst: “Afterlife: Abandoned Mall”
Elinor Ann Walker: “Kaze No Denwa,” “For Emma, Wherever We May Find Her”
Jan Clausen: “Lines Written After Equinox,” “Objective Narration”
River Elizabeth Hall: “Not the Red”
Angela Sucich: “Start at the Beginning”
Dag T. Straumsvåg: “Den Mystiske Vegen””/Mystery Road”
Barry Sternlieb: “’rain suRgery’”
Sarah Carleton: “The Unmooring”
Katie Hartsock: “Trying,”
Sue Ellen Thompson: “London Wedding”
Christine Degenaars: “Missing My Mother in Jersey, 22 Miles Away”
Kendra L. Vanderlip: “I Go Home to Watch My Father Die While Space Junk Threatens My Home State”
John Leonard: “Raking Sand, Mid-Omen”
Gabriel Spera: “The Endlings, “Hummingbird Nest,” “After Fire and Rain”