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Spring Issue 2025
David Borofka – Fiction / Featured
From the Latest Issue
Kashiana Singh – 3 Poems
Howls quiet, tears dry, homes empty, streets/Heavy with wounds after wounds. By now,/Sleep has become a ghazal that repeats itself—/Every…
John Gamboa – Art
This suite of paintings is based on images appropriated from fashion illustrations found in issues of The Delineator magazine dating…
Claudia Wysocki – Photography
Wysocky believes in the transformative power of art and views writing as a vital force that inspires her daily. Her…
Walter Heineman – 3 Poems
here in the lowland vines and tall grasses/there are plenty of fears/but i can live with that/because i get to…
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American Playground
It’s 1971, and 7-year-old Mishel Manoucherian’s family has packed up their life in Tehran and moved to Los Angeles, launching him headfirst into a disorienting new world of social and schoolyard expectations. At once a witty and warm exploration of the immigrant experience and coming of age tale, American Playground illuminates the Iranian American experience through a child’s unique perspective.
Full of heart, humor and insight, American Playground explores the tensions between assimilation and identity, a child’s desperation to pass as one of many, and the age-old conflict between Bugs Bunny and everyone who’s out to “kill the wabbit.” Bringing a fresh perspective to classic genres, Shokrian’s writing recalls the honesty and ferocity of classic Los Angeles writers Fante and Bukowski, with a modern immigrant’s twist.
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Debbie Graber – Fiction
Rich and I hit a few balls, when he pulled me off the court, his finger up to his lips….
Harvey Huddleston – Fiction
Sat with two guys at chow. One a ball turret gunner I flew with a few missions back. Before takeoff…
Johnny Elder – 2 Poems
We walk along slowly, as a way of catching our breath, holding it close and unpolluted, the old radio, in front of…
James Sutherland-Smith – 3 Poems
I could do with a distraction/from the singing line,/the soft wail of the past/and noisy electronic riffs of the present./Let…
Jonathan Singer – Fiction
It’s a new world out there, the email read, and the paper was determined to do its part to help…
Kevin Finnerty – Fiction
A year later, we married. A couple more passed before we decided we wanted to have a child. Because we…
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Seven years goes by fast, doesn’t it? It’s a lucky number and, since the die has been cast, there is…
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