FEATURE
47.1 Feature: “Midnight Saturn Bass Note: Afterword to A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure” by Hoa Nguyen
Midnight Saturn Bass Note Afterword to A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasureby Hoa Nguyenfrom BWR 47.1I set out to write A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure years ago. Decades, really. Writing this, I’m wondering if it is as simple as that sentence I have said...
46.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Diana Clarke
I was not looking for Freud. Freud did not need any finding. But Sándor did need finding.
46.2 Feature: Craft Essay by Jessica Lanay
I was not looking for Freud. Freud did not need any finding. But Sándor did need finding.
2019 Nonfiction Contest Runner-Up Sophie He
"Corrective vision surgery takes on a whole new meaning in 'Chinatownland.' The result is a cartography that includes our blindspots. In 'Chinatownland,' juxtaposition, one of disruption’s favorite tools, simultaneously blurs and focuses our vision so that we might...
2019 Poetry Contest Runner-Up Kamden Hilliard
The nēnē bird, AKA, the Hawaiian goose, AKA, how birds state need
amidst emergency, economic development, pimped rainbows, & pricey
neighbors
From the Archives: “The Coffin, the Ship” by Mel Kassel
At dawn, I look out the porthole and wait for my vampire.
2019 Fiction Contest Runner-Up Rosana Cruz
" 'What it Took' is—thankfully, blessedly, refreshingly—strange. Visceral and seething, this story contains all the ingredients of a forbidden spell, and reading it is like tucking into an ancient grimoire. The most affecting stories are often beautiful and vicious...
From the Archives: “The Empty” by Panpan Song
This much was true: nothing very bad happened. Nothing big.
46.2 Feature: “Socratic Wig” by Sara Kachelman
Socratic Wigby Sara Kachelmanfrom BWR 46.2I found my mother’s hair on a foam head at Wigland. It lit up the downtown window display. Above it a sign said: the last true redhead. It was referring to my mother. She was the last true redhead, and now she was dead. We had...
46.2 Feature: “Extermination” by Mónica Ramón Ríos (trans. Robin Myers)
Exterminationby Mónica Ramón RíosTranslated from the Spanish by Robin Myersfrom BWR 46.2The Extermination showed up a few weeks before the machines came to Zanjón de la Aguada and drained the swamp (rank, fetid, black). That’s what I called him because he didn’t scare...