Mandira Pattnaik is the author of collections Anatomy of a Storm-Weathered Quaint Townspeople (2022, Fahmidan Publishing, Poetry), Girls Who Don't Cry (2023, Alien Buddha Press, Flash Fiction) and Where We Set Our Easel (May 2023, Stanchion Publishing, Novella). Mandira's work has appeared in The McNeese Review, Penn Review, Quarterly West, Passages North, Timber, Contrary, and Quarter After Eight, among others. She edits for trampset and Vestal Review. More at mandirapattnaik.com.
Yaso Saijo wrote a poem, “Tomino’s Hell,” after losing his family during World War I, Maene whispers. Maene thinks the poem is a curse. You’re afraid of Maene, she is the eldest in your middle school dormitory, and you know the poem exists to kill whomever reads it aloud, and yet you listen. The ceiling fan whirls, the wind beyond… Read more →