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Poetry
DON HOGLE
ROBIN GOW
Chicken Soup for the Dysphoria
MERCURY-MARVIN SUNDERLAND
GRACE MISKOVSKY
A Talking Doll that No Longer Speaks
EILEEN MALONE
Fiction
KATY DARBY
Nonfiction
The Affidavit of What it Wasn’t
B. TYLER LEE
"This year is our first issue with a theme; truth. When I made truth the theme of this year’s edition of Spectrum, I had hopes and expectations for the kind of work we would receive. My hopes were exceeded and my expectations exploded. The submissions we received ranged in topic and scale, from childhood crushes to institutional injustices. The truths that we explore in this issue are raw and intense, and they left the editorial staff breathless. They are also deeply important and empowering."
-- Madeleine Almond, Editior-in-Chief, vol. 63, from "Letter from the Editor"
Table of Contents
Poetry
Neighbor Boy
KATHY O'FALLEN
Forever
Dear Brad Pitt,
DON HOGLE
Say Her Name
Demeter Clarifies
ALISON STONE
Field Notes
Hall of Justice Parking Lot
KATHLEEN MCCLUNG
Milk Jug
Stillbirthed
MEGHA MAJUMDAR
To My Credit Card Defrauders
CAROL TYX
The Stillness of Days Before
Alone in a Darkened Room
HOLLY DAY
Horsefly
JUDE VIVEN DEXTER
Plateosaurs
ROBIN GOW
The Nerve
CAITLIN CURTIS
Chicken Soup for the Dysphoria
MERCURY-MARVIN SUNDERLAND
Sweet like
ALAHNNA ALVARADO
Nightmare, Maybe from Porn
Ego
MARK MILAZZO
Thoughts from the B Train
GRACE MISKOVSKY
Agnes Behind Closed Doors
JAMES B. NICOLA
Depression Era
I Was a Woman When None Existed
CARL BOON
On Dropped Eggs and Spilled Milk, or Why I’m Never Having Children
KENDRA NUTTALL
A Talking Doll that No Longer Speaks
EILEEN MALONE
Peaches
Please Don't Hurt Me
When You Transitioned Without Me
HOLLY PAINTER
Stop Being so Catholic
LISSA KIERNAN
Sitcom with Dad and Kids
CHARLES JOSEPH ALBERT
Fiction
Golden Eggs
SUSAN ROBISON
Pressed
M.C. SCHMIDT
The Effects of Certain Chemicals on Male Fertility
JOEL FISHBANE
The Pull
KATY DARBY
Nonfiction
The Game You Lose Just by Playing
BRANDON MARLON
The Affidavit of What it Wasn’t
B. TYLER LEE
The Fabulous Fat Boy Follies
PAUL DALMAS
Dolores
COLLEEN HALUPA
Art
Contractions
Education for All
GUILHERME BERGAMINI
Astral Ancestral Experience
The Pereguine Wind
NAM DAS
Composite 1
MARTIN KRAFT & ELENA MAKANSI
Untitled
JEFF LANE
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