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In this issue, a group of teenagers, fueled by drug and alcohol, flirt, kiss, and wade around a pool and hot tub in Kira Homsher’s “Year of the Rat.” Sarah Louise sits at the bedside and thinks through how best to wait for the inevitable in “A Cookie Can Do Almost Anything.” And Richard Lyons questions the division between memory and history in three poems beginning with “The Light Might Even Materialize.”

This issue features photographs of northern Norway taken in 1881 by Charles Rabot, a French geographer and explorer.

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In this issue, an older married couple tries to rekindle their relationship in the swamps of the south in Aaron Muller’s “New.” Adrian S. Potter struggles with the difficult process of divorce in four poems beginning with “Excerpt from an Intervention Letter.” And in “Crevices,” Rebecca Givens Rolland examines her life in and out of the water.

This issue features photographs of the water and sunset in Buzzards Bay, a bay in Massachusetts that contains no buzzards.

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In this issue, a teenage girl deals with a night of regret in Michelle Ross’s “An Awkward Shape to Carry.” Cassie Pruyn asks her unborn baby, “Who contains whom?” in four poems that compare pregnancy alongside ideas of space and memory, beginning with “Housed.” And in “The Laundry Chronicles,” EM Mariani knows that in a big family, it’s never just about the laundry.

This issue features stills from The Third Man, a 1949 film directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene.

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In this all-nonfiction issue, Patty Ireland navigates memory and regret, and what she might have done differently, in “One True Friend Who Loved Lake Loudon.” Barney Levitt ponders a question answered in an unexpected way, in “The Most Difficult Moment of Your Life.” And Matt Miller remembers what it was like to be a son, and thinks through how to be a father, in “Return of the King.”

This issue features film stills from One Wonderful Sunday, a 1947 film co-written and directed by Akira Kurosawa.

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In this issue, three sisters recount a heart wrenching childhood memory in Amanda Cecilia Lang’s “At Rest.” In “London Calling: From the Back of a Dodge Caravan,” Travis Roberson re-thinks his past to the tune of The Only Band That Matters. And William Woolfitt both laments and celebrates the complicated history of coal mining in West Virginia in two poems beginning with “Coal Creek Litany.” Woolfitt’s new collection, The Night the Rain Had Nowhere to Go, is from Belle Point Press.

This issue features images of the planet Mars that demonstrate how we see what we imagine more often than we suspect.

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This week, we bring you an all-fiction issue of Cutleaf. In this issue, two train hoppers try to avoid injuries and the law in Eric Boyd’s “Further, Farther.” A couple from beyond observes the whims of the not-so-dead in Illari Pass’s “Yeah, That Was Her.” And a father and son traverse treacherous paths in Yong Tokahashi’s “Boy.”

This issue features images of Jupiter obtained by the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the Hubble Space Telescope.

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In this issue, a girl reflects on food, family, and a pet rabbit in Victoria Ballesteros’ “The Kitchen.” Sandra Jensen details the aftermath of a feared event, and how the mundane world competes with grief, in “Now That You Are Here.” And Carson Colenbaugh hurtles over Georgian hills and mountains, finding kinship with fire ants and cicadas in four poems beginning with “A Rite of Spring.”

This issue features images and metaphoric imaginings of the brain.

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In this all-poetry issue, Laura Adrienne Brady uses ancient tales to tell the modern story of living with chronic disease in four poems beginning with “I Seek Healing in the Usual Places.” Paul Illechko celebrates the way weeds spread and how light shines through stained glass in five poems beginning with “Sonnet that Only Exists in the Tropics.” And Heather Treseler depicts why women are sometimes made to feel that they don’t belong in three poems beginning with “Still Life.”

This issue features stills from Making Books, a 1947 documentary by Encyclopedia Britannica Films.

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In this issue, Detlef Wieck remembers the consequences of kindness in his childhood during a frigid winter in “Mrs. Juhl.” Ray Trotter takes us on a mountainside field trip with family, old acquaintances, and an impromptu singer in “Galactic Collisions, Quiet Acres on Mars.” And David B. Prather celebrates the bodies “that must eventually relinquish” in four poems beginning with “When it comes to revelation.” Prather’s newest collection of poetry, Bending Light with Bare Hands, is forthcoming from Fernwood Press.

This issue features photographs from the Los Angeles Alligator Farm (ca. 1907.)

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In our first all flash nonfiction issue, Matt Kelley traces the arc of a relationship in “Will You Please Allow Me to Apologize, Please?” In “Thank You All for Your Helpful Opinions,” Jennifer D. Munro lists all things said to her over the course of a family crisis. And Kory Wells remembers the power of music in “I Felt All Flushed with Fever.”

This issue features images from Aditya L-1, India’s first space-based mission to study the Sun.

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In this issue, Lawrence Bridges proves “there’s not nothing today / by noting things that were and still are” in four poems beginning with “Ghost Love Child.” Bonnie Lander Johnson explores how the past and present collide in our understanding of tragedy—ours and those of the others—in “blackwhite.” And Annie Lindenberg explores a family Thanksgiving, dyed blue hair, a brother’s remission, and the virtue of IPAs in “From the Dinner Table.”

This issue features EastOver garden images courtesy of WM Robinson.

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In this issue, Margo Katz explores the ups and downs of a family coping with narrow stairs in “Thirteen Steps.”
John Honkala takes us on a drunken, lyrical account of a bar and its memorable cast of characters in “There are No Roads That Lead Here.” And Kari Gunter-Seymour shines a light on the impact of poverty, generational afflictions, and America’s skewed regard for those living in Appalachia in four poems beginning with “Me Oh, My Oh.” Dirt Songs, Gunter-Seymour’s third full-length collection, is published this month by EastOver Press.

This issue features images from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a 1931 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian.

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