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May-June 2024 Issue

Fiction

The Waffle House Ordeal

I was parked facing Shorter Avenue, sipping from a Styrofoam cup of bad coffee and watching an Astro minivan get towed. That was when...
Fiction

Nighthawks—Dallas, Texas—1987, 2016

The usual twenty minutes had elapsed. Then she’d started in. Same thing most evenings after work. Her recitation might have kept my attention if...
Fiction

L.A. versus La.

There was no escaping it. Aunt and Uncle Macaslin intended to plug Orlando into the local Louisiana high school, and on a Monday, right...
Fiction

Aperture

The Atlántico Hotel employees were told to leave everything—their worries, their moods, their questions, their lives—back of house, where they could pick them up...
Fiction

DIRT

Grady and Alice Bell’s twenty-year-old daughter Hope has died. They’re home alone after the funeral and the burial and after the distressing but obligatory...
Poetry

Royalty on the Ohio

Smell of the new, the pure, lures us to the swollen river.I fly inside our camp cottage as soon as I see my father...
Poetry

Ark-La-Miss

I’m in the booth of a Natchez restaurantbefore dawn, having woken earlyfrom a dream in which Stacy, with darkshoulder-length hair, drove a compact redmobile,...
Arts

Why Waffle House?

I get asked all the time why I paint Waffle Houses.My answer is: Why not?I know I’m not the first person to immortalize Waffle...
Food & Drink

Cuban Bread

Miami Lakes, Florida1992I open the front door of my mother’s house, to find my grandfather. His dyed hair is slicked back with pomade and...
May-June 2024 Issue

Backlist Treasures – May/June 2024

Sam Simoneaux has come back to New Orleans from a less than glorious tour of duty at the end of World War I to...

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