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Carnation City
by Sarp Sozdinler

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Street art of an angel painted on a roll-up garage door
Photo by Alpha Perspective on Unsplash

 

Angels require more
love than the divine.

Someone placed a fish bone
in God’s throat.

Heavens forbid,
Hells simmer.

In Ohio, some people
still worship the skies.

 

A Turkish writer & poet, SARP SOZDINLER has been published in Electric Literature, Kenyon Review, Masters Review, and Normal School, among other journals. Their work has been selected or nominated for anthologies including the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Wigleaf Top 50. They currently are at work on their first novel in Philadelphia and Amsterdam.

Further Reading

Neat Panic
by Julia Mallory

Through photosynthesis and the siren song, these poems are written for an alchemical future, one that calls for ‘a third thing’ beyond records of atrocity and poison.

2022 Flash Fiction Contest Results!

MAYDAY’s March Madness tournament has come to an end. Congratulations to all sixteen of our finalists! From the start, there could be only one champion.

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