ISSUE 75 | MAY 2017

IMAGINARY FRIENDS

Image by Leah Gallant.

Cat Pierro

The Beginning of a Beautiful Psychoanalytic Relationship

to my dismay he gestures - why am I here - the attempt to state X - a baby gift would be - once we settle on a number - primarily of names, plus some boxes - is the memo for the person - getting the hang

L. Desharnais

Mortal Combat

will have squatted - poverty's and wealth's - mulch smell, cracked - W A R - will until it - able to leave ward - disinfecting secular peace - unwaged lifetimes - bright red caps - disarmed and bugged - pride in hell

Megan Barickman

Bely’s Centaurs

symbolist persuasion - as if from unicorns - a clumsy gesture - it was a « joke. » - the hidden formlessness of the thing - arrests were being made - ferrying a little bomb

Samuel Pepes (An AffectiveEphemera Brand)

A Movable Fast

overwhelming distress - already dead - Pepe the Frog - confessionals of DMs - acceptable ersatz - like Tucker Max - meninist themes - put the cities to flame - such first meetings

Rachel Kranz

Haunted

something worse - wasn't sure - sleek, gray, underfed - Phantom, singular - lively and glossy, or else defeated and old - in bed, always - not her type - her liquid five hours a week - and a place to go and a home

Joseph Spece

Cinnamon the Hunter

after mackerel - blind. Black - head in my beard and I - lime every - whitebelly - brought me a - artery - once more