Grief does not wait for Death, by Karan Kapoor
Dida does not know deathhas planted her spine in an egg carton that someone willforget on a windowsill until winter, where nothing butgrief grows. She does not know she is…
issue 18
Ask a Necromancer, by Amanda Downum
A Fantastic Voyage Adam wants to know about “phases of decomp, assuming [a] cool/cold outdoor setting.” I love a good voyage of discovery through the stages of decomposition. So much…
The Watchers in the Stairwell, by Emily Henry Burnham
but once, after Sunday service, she heard the sexton say that there are places where the dead traverse a river after death, paying a boatsman to ferry them across the water.
Burning Sassafras, by Cassie E. Brown
My grandpa’s antique shelf clock sits on my mother’s fireplace mantel. It unnerved me as a child—the glass of its face reflects a golden patina of age that’s slightly oily,…
Death Work, by K.S. Walker
but once, after Sunday service, she heard the sexton say that there are places where the dead traverse a river after death, paying a boatsman to ferry them across the water.
I’m Gonna be a Country Girl Again, by Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
Summer has comein waves of pollenand exhaust heart-cut rhinestonesin the eyesof velvet fawnshidden in the shadeof wood geraniumand mandrake snapping turtlewith her razor beakbroodingin the sandbox behind the houseyour father…