Andrea Bruce / VII Network

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Introduction
from the Editor’s Comment

Fiction
Mikael Awake, Your Taxi Is the Greatest Movement
Jensen Beach, Don’t Go
Michael Reid Busk, They Came from Everywhere, They Came with Everything
Stephan Clark, The Lady with the Stray Dog
Viet Dinh, The Ruined City
Pete Duval, I, Budgie
Dave Kim, A Short Vacation
Peter LaSalle, from Mariposa’s Song
Peter Orner, Plaza Revolution, Mexico City, 6 a.m.
Kevin Spaide, Fish Farm
Terese Svoboda, The Royal Bank of Canada
Rachel Swearingen, Shoreward

Poetry
Michelle Chan Brown, If Veronika Wins the Prison Pageant
Brenda Coultas, from The Tatters
Katy Didden, Conquistadore / The Penitentes’ Morada
Cathy Park Hong, Ballad in i / Ballad of Western Scat
Emmy Hunter, In the Moment of Sun
Bhanu Kapil, from Schizophrene
Karen An-hwei Lee, Prayer for Equinoctial Green / Psalm III
Shiaw-Tian Liaw, Burning a wheat field
Kathleen M. McCann, Mullagh / Sky Comes to Ground
Trey Moody, from Dear Ghosts,
Andrew Pryor, Pastoral for the Beasts of the Field / Pastoral with Your Initials Carved in the Back of It
Paisley Rekdal, Wax
Nicholas Samaras, The Abduction of Even Language / All the Flowers of England / An Unexpected, Framed Sketch of a Stone Archway and Wall Diminishing
Solmaz Sharif, Drone
Molly Stern, the mausoleum
Mike White, Bridge

Nonfiction
Philip Cartelli, On the Maroni
Richard Froude, The Girl Who Fell Through the Ice
Josip Novakovich, Shopping for a Better Country
Jeff Walker, Case Against the Driver

Photography
Andrea Bruce, from Italy’s “Gypsy Emergency”