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Summer 2022
The third installment of our biannual Summer fiction issue brings together an eclectic mix of stories showcasing a range of modes and voices, featuring fiction from the confessional to the surreal. All the stories here share a disposition to exercising different kinds of tension, which manifests in hard ethical choices, the impulse and consequences of betrayal, even a tension between realism and the fantastical. Complementing the special fiction section is an essay on the promises and shortcomings of English as a second language (in particular, as the language of new beginning for migrants in Europe) along with a photo portfolio on the unsettling sublimity of an evangelical mecca in the Ozarks.
Summer 2022
Volume 98, Number 2
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Print: $20.00
Digital download: $20.00
Table of contents
Essays
Photography
Fiction
Poetry
Open Letter
#VQRTrueStory
Art & The Archive
Editor's Desk
Drawing It Out