Glass Flamingos by Catherine Roberts
I smash them all. Because who the fuck collects glass flamingos? Around me, pink shards sparkle in the carpet like pretty vomit.
The Bronze Medal by Vincent James Perrone
She wants to meet the pig—snout down, paraded through the town square of sodden earth and
stump dimples, now trailed by serpentine line of freshly showered farmer with tomato noses and
breath prematurely soured from all that auctioneer talk.
When Elephants Become Stories by Vimla Sriram
An elephant is pressed into my palms as I prepare to leave home. I marvel at its neolithic shape – smooth and plump like a thumb-sized Botero sculpture.
Attachment Theory by Sidney Tilghman
In a basement hallway, in graduate school, a classmate lectures me on attachment theory. Based on his prior experience as a sex therapist, he’d guess only 5% of Americans display healthy attachment relationships
Issue 32: Animal Life
Issue 32: Animal Life features work by L. Acadia, Guy Biederman, Tim Craig, Judy Darley, Laura Grant, Brandon Haffner, Lucinda Kempe, Jay Kenny, Georgie Morvis, Alan Michael Parker, Vincent James Perrone, Catherine Roberts, Vimla Sriram, and Sidney Tilghman.