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MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 13 Summer 2018

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MAYDAY Magazine Issue 13 Summer 2018

INTERVIEWS Hanif Abdurraqib
interviewed by Ruth Awad		 Joy Is Not Promised to You
ESSAYS Joshua Bernstein The Gospel of Dearth
Tom Larsen The Nightmare Next Door
Jerome Richard Good and Decent People
Janette Schafer The Miracle of Ordinary
FICTION Eric Barnes Time Space
Thomas Jacobs The Death of Z
Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio Fighting for His Brother

Recognition
Matt Whelihan A Painter’s Secret
POETRY Roy Bentley Orville Wright Lies Prone in a Flying Machine as His Brother Wilbur and Associate Dan Tate Give It a Running Start
Nandini Dhar This Allegory Landscape
Deborah Flanagan Cross-Country Skiing and Bratwurst: A Brief Study of Angela Merkel
The List of Unusual Deaths
The Right Way Home
Alice B. Fogel As If

Epiphyte

Mood Piece
Marc Frazier Meditation One
Stephen Gibson The Art of Poetry: Summer of Love

Dec. 7th, 1941
Carolyn Oliver Interlopers
Sergio Ortiz Nightbird

Shortcut
Katherine Riegel Driving Through Alabama

Helpless

Wonders
Barbara Kreader Skalinder In Defense of the Marriage Act
Jane O. Wayne The Hazards
Tori Grant Welhouse Scottish Husband
Michael T. Young Song

The Mind as a Poor City Planner

What the Mind Hungers for
TRANSLATION Mirza Sakit
translated by Murad Jalilov
and Kevin Rabas		 [The nightingale is plucking out its feathers.]
Stanislav Stratiev
translated by Risa Shargel		 The Snow Kept Falling
FEATURED
ARTIST		 Epiphany Knedler Illuminating Disparity:
Economic Inquality in the Midwest


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