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Crab Sticks and Lobster Rolls
Kathleen Ridgwell
‘She wears a push up bra and a low-cut top, much to the admiration of the surfers. But it is not their attention she seeks.’
Fiction by Kathleen Ridgwell.
Mothers Not Appearing in Search
Joshua Lubwama
‘It was the universal dream. Cristiano Ronaldo earned more money in one week than the best engineer or lawyer did in one year. The boys knew that and I knew it, too.’
Fiction by Joshua Lubwama.
Descend
Chanel Sutherland
‘Down here, a thought was a precious thing. It carried our entire lives.’
Fiction by Chanel Sutherland.
Margot’s Run
Subraj Singh
‘Margot, whose feet seemed to work on their own, having memorized the pathways.’
Fiction by Subraj Singh.
Playing Dead & On Haunting
Rae Armantrout
‘Analogies are useful / for scaring spirits off.’
Two poems by Rae Armantrout.
An Eye and a Leg
Faria Basher
‘“You’re an expiring woman,” said the doctor, pointing at me. “This happens to women of a certain age.”’
Fiction by Faria Basher.
Ending it in Turn
Anne Serre
‘Something slightly odd united us at times: a form of cruelty.’
Fiction by Anne Serre, translated by Mark Hutchinson.
From Perverts
Kay Gabriel
‘you dreamt of the CUNY / Graduate Center library / on fire, you dove in to save Stalin’s / copy of Capital’
Poetry by Kay Gabriel.
Trying to Rejoin the Sun
Paula Fourie
‘He saw himself as nothing more than a man holding a pen.’
Paula Fourie remembers her husband, Athol Fugard.
Los Angeles, Indiana
Jesse Barron
‘The material becomes a fable about Los Angeles, a city that is always watching itself watch itself.’
Jesse Barron on Los Angeles and Gary Indiana’s final novel.
Dead Friends
Thomas Meaney
‘Dead friends come to us unbidden – in unexpected moments, in dreams. They remain in conversation. In these pages, writers have transmitted the flickering aura of their departed friends.’
The editor introduces the issue.
Burning Mao
Fernanda Eberstadt
‘On 7 December 1976, I finally succeeded in pestering my parents into introducing me to Andy Warhol.’
Fernanda Eberstadt on her friendship with Andy Warhol.
