SCR Volume 55.2 Spring 2023 Has Arrived!

May 5, 2023

Our spring issue includes fiction and poetry by authors Daniel Wallace, George Singleton, Evelyn Berry, Anne Marie Rooney, and many more.

This issue also announces the winners of the fourth annual Ronald Moran Prize in Fiction and Poetry:

Poetry: Evelyn Olmos, “House of Mirrors” (SCR 55.1)

Fiction: Banzelman Guret, “A Plan’s a Plan” (SCR 55.1)

Contents

Poetry

1 MARIA ZOCCOLA the wrongness lies, she said,; ten percent

14 EVELYN BERRY the trans archive self-immolates

16 LUCIAN MATTISON Evacuation Orders

31 JENNA GOLDSMITH Let’s Contribute to a Community Free of Sexual Misconduct

34 CASSANDRA WHITAKER A Wolf Named Kyle

43 KENTON K. YEE Pompeii Casts

44 DANIELLE KOTRLA Tour of Grief; Elm Street

61 RONDA PISZK BROATCH Tonight, You Play Your Country Western Records Backwards

62 DAN ALBERGOTTI Here, Where Men Sit

79 PATRICK KINDIG Tropical Depression

80 ULYSES RAZO Poem Convincing You to Leave Your Husband

91 CARSON COLENBAUGH Passing the Dove Fields, I Think of Those Who Came Before; Economies of Scale

99 ROMANA IORGA what short wicks / we fuel with our blood

114 JENNY MOLBERG Initiation in White; Jenny | Jennifer: Aries Season

129 JEFF WILLIAM ACOSTA Fireflies

132 CANDICE KELSEY Ave, Verum Corpus

134 ANNE MARIE ROONEY That last year in Pittsburgh; Braid

141 ROXANNE HALPINE WARD The Medical Editor on Photo Albums; The Medical Editor Lies Down

Fiction

3 DANIEL WALLACE The Stork

18 YOUN ROURKE The World a Stage

33 ADAM MCOMBER Signs of a House Haunting

35 JEFF EWING Our Erosion

48 M.E. KOPP Timber

64 JAMIE BLACK Sparrow Trapped in Crashing Plane

81 GEORGE SINGLETON Wild Me

94 REBECCA ORCHARD Small Hours

101 TADEO PALACIOS VALVERDE Not Long Until Dawn

118 BILL GAYTHWAITE Certain Healing Properties

136 MICHAEL DON Something to Hold

143 T. S. MCADAMS Forsaking Paul Bunyan

Book Reviews

146 CLARE MULLANEY Disability and Wonder in Emily Rose Cole’s Thunderhead

149 MIRIAM MCEWEN Love Is a Horror: How Adam McOmber’s Fantasy Kit Centers Queer Emotion

151 SADIE HOAGLAND A Midwest with Layers: Jenny Robertson’s Hoist House

154 ADAM MILLION Buy a Membership: Wandering through Rubble Square by Adam Tavel

157 BRIAN MCGRATH Worldlessness and Love: Walt Hunter’s Some Flowers

161 SARAH BLACKMAN When Skies Are Also Walls: Oindrila Mukherjee’s The Dream Builders

Contributors

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