2019 Spring Online Issue
A Companion to the Print Issue
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Edited by Amanda Ly and Jennifer Lopez
Print Issue Contributors
Emily Grey - Brenda Estrada
Andrea Vazquez - I Understand My Human Being
Amanda Ly - 5 Micro-Interviews with Mental Health Professionals
Raul Meza Munoz - To The Admissions Officer
Raul Meza Munoz - Strawberry
Raul Meza Munoz - Specters in the Mirror
The 2019 Inscape Editor's Prizes
For Prose - Kathlene McGovern - Signet
For Poetry - Baylie Raddon - In Hopes of Being an Oxpecker in My Next Dream
Robyn Cheng - Growl
Sophia Murlowski - Taste of Fire
Baylie Raddon - A Review of Good Bones by Maggie Smith
Andrea Vazquez - I Understand My Human Being
Amanda Ly - 5 Micro-Interviews with Mental Health Professionals
Raul Meza Munoz - To The Admissions Officer
Raul Meza Munoz - Strawberry
Raul Meza Munoz - Specters in the Mirror
The 2019 Inscape Editor's Prizes
For Prose - Kathlene McGovern - Signet
For Poetry - Baylie Raddon - In Hopes of Being an Oxpecker in My Next Dream
Robyn Cheng - Growl
Sophia Murlowski - Taste of Fire
Baylie Raddon - A Review of Good Bones by Maggie Smith
Recovery is Possible - Issue Editor's Introduction
Dear Death - Isabella Olguin
Photography - Humboldt County - Chloe Zofia Hawkins
2019 Handley Award Winner - Cassie Wilson
Asking for Help - Kitty Anarchy
After it Happened - Kitty Anarchy
Foursquare - Kitty Anarchy
Break Up Poems - Amy Ace
The Rules of Rape Before #MeToo: For Women - Bernadette Ortiz
Photography - "Girl" - Bernadette Ortiz
Con Gracia - Brenda Estrada
Dear Death - Isabella Olguin
Photography - Humboldt County - Chloe Zofia Hawkins
2019 Handley Award Winner - Cassie Wilson
Asking for Help - Kitty Anarchy
After it Happened - Kitty Anarchy
Foursquare - Kitty Anarchy
Break Up Poems - Amy Ace
The Rules of Rape Before #MeToo: For Women - Bernadette Ortiz
Photography - "Girl" - Bernadette Ortiz
Con Gracia - Brenda Estrada
Online Issue Contributors
Art from Silas Plum
Through assemblages of defunct currency, discarded photographs, and long-forgotten illustrations, Silas Plum challenges the idea of objective vs subjective value. He believes strongly in the tired old maxim that the true value of an object is more than the sum of its parts, that the gut is a truth-teller, and that the Aristotelian notion of learning-by-doing is the best teacher around. Judge his worth at silasplum.com.
Frankenstein's Mother - Silas Plum.
Micro Interviews with Mental Health Professionals
"There is beauty beneath the madness and struggles."
- Nina Cravioto, from her Micro Interview
- Nina Cravioto, from her Micro Interview
Poems and Prose
"Got my mind trapped on this Thursday."
- "Weak - days" by John Michael Gamban
- "Weak - days" by John Michael Gamban
“Sorry fellas, I can’t remember. I was
drunk.”
- "Haircuts" by Collin Mitchell
drunk.”
- "Haircuts" by Collin Mitchell
"I need no institution, religion
or person to show me path."
- "I believe in my own Self" by Sandip Saha
or person to show me path."
- "I believe in my own Self" by Sandip Saha
Frankenstein Collages
Sebouh Oshagan
Untitled 3 - Sebouh Oshagan
Untitled 1 - Sebouh Oshagan
About Sebouh Oshagan
Sebouh Oshagan is a student at PCC, majoring in English Literature. He is a big fan of Frankenstein's monster and wants to give him a hug.
About Sanjeev Sethi
Sanjeev Sethi is the author of three books of poetry. His most recent collection is This Summer and That Summer (Bloomsbury, 2015). His poems are in venues around the world: The Broadkill Review, After the Pause, Chicago Record Magazine, Unlikely Stories Mark V, Stickman Review, Ann Arbor Review, Neologism Poetry Journal, Home Planet News, London Grip, M58, Postcolonial Text, Communion Arts Journal, and elsewhere. He lives in Mumbai, India.
Treble
In the holy mess, chasing temporal
concerns with single-mindedness
of strays, alarm of an ambulance
stokes your presence and uneven
chords. Music of our mossiness
can't be held dear. Some we don't
wish to divvy up, some concerts
fail to flicflac.
concerns with single-mindedness
of strays, alarm of an ambulance
stokes your presence and uneven
chords. Music of our mossiness
can't be held dear. Some we don't
wish to divvy up, some concerts
fail to flicflac.
Everyday
In ear-piercing surround of scullery
you're as audible as your blazon.
There is no evidence of the well-
spoken as drumming shellacs the
sober. Meter isn't make-work, it
is balm for bafflements. It keeps
me high-toned and whole-souled.
At the secretaire.
you're as audible as your blazon.
There is no evidence of the well-
spoken as drumming shellacs the
sober. Meter isn't make-work, it
is balm for bafflements. It keeps
me high-toned and whole-souled.
At the secretaire.
Specters in the Mirror
by Raul Meza Munoz
Boredom,
at the world
pools in the eyes
of strangers,
of myself
becoming stranger.
The mirror bores me,
when those eyes bore into me
As the exhausted world
bears my woes,
allowing strangers to see
the stranger I've become.
Thus, boredom pools
in the heart of the stranger,
glancing at a self
-
portrait,
as a man unconcerned with the world,
emulating such tragedy,
sublimates into the bleak.
This aching
heartbreaking world
--
it bores me to
pieces.
at the world
pools in the eyes
of strangers,
of myself
becoming stranger.
The mirror bores me,
when those eyes bore into me
As the exhausted world
bears my woes,
allowing strangers to see
the stranger I've become.
Thus, boredom pools
in the heart of the stranger,
glancing at a self
-
portrait,
as a man unconcerned with the world,
emulating such tragedy,
sublimates into the bleak.
This aching
heartbreaking world
--
it bores me to
pieces.
