Issue 34 includes new collaborations by Cole Beauchamp and Sumitra Singam, Philippa Bowe and Karen Walker, Ela Brave and Iván Brave, Kate Faigen and Kyle Weik, Lucas Flatt and Travis Flatt, Rina Palumbo and Christine Fugate, Rachel Harbaugh and Sarah Hurd, and Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross.
“This is your sperm cell,” the nurse practitioner says. He draws an oval with a squiggly line on the white crunchy paper of the medical exam table. Meanwhile I’m annoyed and feeling like a dumb lab rat.
Dear Duck, here there are only gulls for company, some are large and quite pretty but they’re all strangers. Please reply. How are you?
A finger on the lips, a rubbing of the brow, a curling of the lip even at the threshold. This is the snip-snip rhythm Esme finds at Nana’s now that Grampa is gone.
In the Engagement Room, Lucy holds up her ring finger to a display of diamonds. Something inside her sparkles. She fantasizes about a gold band sliding past her bare knuckle: slowly, quickly. Lucy blushes hard, then shuffles after a group into the First Dance Studio.