NEW PAPERs

Julith Jedamus
  The Girl with No Hands
    Fire, the Adamant
    Flour for Snow

Myles Zavelo
   WINTER HEAT

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•    Pure gimmick!
•    This, this is war…
•    I have a math disability.
•    She has an ex-husband now.
•    We took AP English together.
•   “Who are you taking to prom?” 
•   Just tell me when it’s sad, okay?
•   I must have been upset with her?
•   Train conductors always talk shit. 
•   I know that’s a little selfish of me.
•   I was my uncle's money manager.
•   He’d have puked at my poor excuse. 
•   Now that’s an uncle you can swear on.
•   I worry that I come across as shy in bed.
•   I romance these wound-up mental cases. 
•   My old high school is miles and miles away. 
•   I agree completely with the baby of the family. 
•   Great! I'm crying! Now! Again! Tears! Just terrific!
•   I think I’m starting to look as good as I did back then.
•   Please. So I can feel less alone about all of it. Tell me now. 
•   “Sniff some China White and then go for a jog on the beach.”
•   It’s actually not impossible. I read about it. Somewhere in a book.
•   We get into the worst fights with the people who love us the most.
•   So: Her name is Suzette. And she’s always nervous, out of her depth. 
•   Her stomach always rumbles. Her diet is coffee, Prozac, and TicTacs.
•   I guess his November 1991 suicide was just too much for her to handle. 
•   My biggest fear? Probably when I start taking the smell of her for granted…
•   Look: I’m not a kid anymore, and I’m certainly not kidding around anymore.
•   I’m also a little scared of people who can easily flip the switch on compassion.
•   It's a wobbly train going backward – I’m talking about the brainy parts upstairs. 
•   “Fact: Homeless hookers make up around two percent of the world’s population.”
•   I was always screaming my little head off when I ran away from my little bed as a little kid.
•   I already knew the 9-1-1 buttons. She’d shown me the 9-1-1 buttons before. Showed them just for fun.
•   “It’s about a professional comedian on his deathbed, and there’s so many more jokes that he’s just dying to tell.” 
•   Christmas vacation, sophomore year. I knew I was a young man – but had completely forgotten I was technically an adult – I couldn’t admit that fat fact. 
•   All I can remember is lots and lots of running. See, I was on the track team, it was a track scholarship. And then that suicide attempt in my parents’ bathroom – nasty, bloody – and my mother says I was born into this world with the common sense of a little girl.
Yuxin Zhao
   towards a science of haunting

    
T.C. Hell
   Ritual poses

Colton Karpman (Founding Editor)
   Editor’s Note


Dilara Koz (Art Director)

Em Bauer (Illustrator)

Isaac Zamet (Poetry Editor)

William McGuire (Prose Editor)