In this issue of Cutleaf, Hanna Ferguson explores butterflies, Conway Twitty, and vampires as she contemplates an upcoming wedding in her abecedarian essay, “A Little Marshmallow Ghost.”
Stephen Hundley asks “What sort of thing uncoils in your belly when you do what you do?” in two poems beginning with “To Pete, who crushed my dog’s head with a hammer.”
And Ron Rash delivers a gut punch of raw emotion and shows us how the most violent of episodes can haunt in unimaginable ways in his dark and chilling story “Lucas.”
The issue features images by Odilon Redon (1840-1916), a painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and pastellist, who developed a singular style that fed both the decadent symbolism of the late nineteenth century and the modernism of the early twentieth. His work included etchings of disembodied eyeballs and smudged ballooning minds in charcoal chiaroscuro.