Tag: Issue 9

  • Orange Crush

    It was 3 a.m. on the second day of March and the moon was waxing, gibbous, and full of rainbow. I was walking down the Rue de Esquimalt, tripping on my feet but also on whatever madman’s panacea, whatever twisted elixir was coursing through my veins at the time. I can’t remember what it was…

  • WHAT BOTTICELLI DID NOT PORTRAY

    What if Venus had risen not from the froth of the sea but from a pool on a farm in Iowa or Minnesota with tower silos of grain as her backdrop as visible from the kitchen window as in the camera lens at the very moment wind sweeps her auburn hair to stream like a…

  • Black Bear

                                             once a woman went to the mountain alone NEVER say its name aloud, or you will wake the     from                               …

  • Zen

    Sherman Larson has eighty-seven bear traps buried in his front yard. Every few weeks he changes them–different patterns for different moods. Pensive: Neat rows exactly a foot apart. Carefully measured to promote tranquility. Balanced. Zen. Anxious: Haphazard clumps. Only some are set to activate, their mouths held open in silent screams. The rest keep their…

  • JB in Detox

    CAST JOHN BERRYMAN (JB):  Professor, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, alcoholic MR. BONES: Dream Songs protagonist Henry’s alter ego; a minstrel NURSE BERRYMAN SENIOR (JB’s father) RODERICK MARSH: A counselor to alcoholics; former student of JB   SCENE The detox ward of a hospital in Minneapolis, circa. 1970 Bare stage, except for a stool   AT…

  • Turtle’s Reunion Tour

    Turtle, Senator and I sat at a table at the Beachcomber on Wollaston Beach while the redheaded guitar player, billed as The President of Rock ‘n’ Roll, roared: There’s a riot goin’ on! Down in cellblock number nine. I was in the slammer with Albert DiSalvo, shouted Senator over the music. He nodded his head…

  • After the Diagnosis

    I stopped planting annuals—no more petunias or geraniums or zinnias I longed to have come back without my bidding. I planted Lenten roses, daffodils, daylilies whose color I forgot so they would surprise me in summer: orange persimmon, showlight, mystic amulet, wispy morn. To continue reading this selection you can purchase Issue 9 http://www.qulitmag.com/shop/

  • Sara Backer

    Sara Backer, an MFA candidate at Vermont College of Fine Arts, has two chapbooks: Scavenger Hunt (dancing girl press) and Bicycle Lotus (Left Fork). Her writing has been honored with eight Pushcart nominations and residency fellowships from the Norton Island and Djerassi programs. Recent publications include Valparaiso Poetry Review, Unbroken, Non-Binary Review, Amaryllis, and Journal…

  • Jordan Bendall

    Jordan Bendall is an author of fiction hailing from Victoria, British Columbia. He has been previously published in ANGLES literary magazine, which featured his related short story Jet Black Bath Water.