Emergency Room The receptionist is calm. An old woman is trying to vomit behind a figured curtain. A white wimpled nun slides by automatic door closes without sound against rubber bumpers. Squeal of burned baby rises to dog whistle soundlessness behind another curtain. Two security guards in tight Hessian blue, pistols on hips, walk around a supine third who lies,…
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Featuring: Issue 93, published January 2020, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Walter Bargen, Nicole Beckley, Jerome Berglund, Eric Blanchard, Rebecca Buller, Lucas Carpenter, Marisa P. Clark, Gareth Culshaw, Steven Deutsch, Melanie Faith, Edilson Ferreira, Meg Freer, Ian Ganassi, James Garrison, Alisha Goldblatt, Leanne Grabel, Ryan Habermeyer, Carol Hamilton, Mark Hurtubise, Julie Jones, Seth Kristalyn, Emerson Little, Marianne Lyon, Karla Linn Merrifield, Suzanne Miller, Anna Oberg, Andrew Posner, V. Joseph Racanelli, Claire Scott, Marian Kaplun Shapiro, Andrew Shelley, Dave Sims, Ann Christine Tabaka, Virginia Watts, Beth Williams.