Issue 42: Stories Inspired by Photographs
Featuring new flash fiction from Anika Carpenter, Karen Crawford, S.A. Greene, Jessica Klimesh, Kathryn Kulpa, Ali McLafferty, Blake Pierpoint, Sophie Purchase, and Brent Waggoner.
Louella Lester
She Would Hate All This Publicity by Louella Lester
Brown eyes. She’s the one who’s difficult to find in a photo, as though she’s been practicing to avoid this all her life.
Here, We Talk About the Weather by Louella Lester
Now. Temperature hovering at 0°C (32°F). Top up your windshield washer fluid. Freezing rain. Record number of car accidents reported.
Three Prose Poems by Louella Lester
Everything stopped—cop’s car/citizen’s car/loud music playing through a cracked window/the joint flicked into a strip of muddy water along the curb.
