SCR Issue 54.1 includes poetry by Juan Camillo Garza, and Jody Winer, with fiction by Alice Yang, Brock Clarke, and Romina Paredes, and features our Ronald Moran Prize winners Leila Ortiz (Poetry) and Alexandra Watson (Fiction).
Contents
Poetry
1 LEILA ORTIZ Poem in Which a Bird is Never Mentioned
15 JUAN CAMILLO GARZA Lonely Apocalypse of the Heart; The Fisherman
25 JODY WINER Riptide
27 KELSEY CARMODY WORT Postal Service
28 ERIN WILSON Rakes, Kickstands, Freckles; New Moon, Halfway to Winter Solstice
39 G.C. WALDREP The Fern Cliff II (Monazite); The Fern Cliff (III)
41 DARON JOHNSON Mama the Witch Doctor
51 DEVON BALWIT Amanuensis: Notes on Mann’s Doctor Faustus
52 GRACE Q. SONG Donation
64 ALEXIS IVY At the Tejas Rodeo
72 CINDY KING Daily Affirvotions
87 K. IVER Tupelo, MS; [Boy] Meets Them
90 ROBIN GOW rental car; distortion
104 BRIAN CLIFTON It Doesn’t Sound Good At All
119 PJ KRASS Benjamin Franklin’s Returrn
128 ELI COYLE Nocturne
136 TALAL ALYAN Mumbai, 2003
Fiction
3 ALEXANDRA WATSON Even Days
17 CONSTANCE RENFROW Handbook for Demolition Cats
21 BROCK CLARKE Happy Birthday
30 JOSEPHINE SLOYAN Oblivion
42 ROMINA PAREDES Kinstugi
53 STEPHAN ERIK CLARK The Dead Goldfish: A Russian Love Story
65 EVAN J MASSEY Joint Readiness
74 PRISCILLA THOMPSON The Ghost Apple
95 ALICE YANG W*RK
106 KATE KRAUTKRAMER ATS
121 ROBIN VIGFUSSON Going to Hades
131 FRANCIS WALSH How May I Direct Your Call?
Book Reviews
138 MIRIAM MCEWEN Bad Acting: The Many Dark Revelations in Tales the Devil Told Me
140 ANNA BLAKE KEELEY Writing Through the Impossible: Sadie Hoagland’s Strange Children
144 ADRIENNE K. BURRIS “A woman can make a living”: Heather Herrman’s The Corpse Queen
147 STEVIE EDWARDS Unlearning Shame: Mother Body by Diamond Forde
152 GARY KERLEY Deception, Guilt, and the Search for Racial Redemption in Marlin Barton’s Children of Dust
155 SARAH BLACKMAN The Future Feels Like This: Lance Olsen’s Skin Elegies
Contributors
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