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Grist Journal | Issue 11

PROFORMA CONTEST WINNERS | ESSAYS | FICTION | INTERVIEWS | POETRY | GRIST ONLINE

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PROFORMA CONTEST WINNERS

ERIC DOVIGI (First Place)

Here Is a List of Words I Prefer

PHILIP SCHAEFER (Second Place)

Five Poems

BRIAN CLIFTON (Third Place)

Bedroom

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ESSAYS

TIMOTHY LAURENCE

Aerophobia

DANA LEVIN

Deep Coordinates: A Letter

THEA LIM

Epidermis, Dermis, Subcutis

SCOTT WALLACE

Shaping the Narrative of a Journey to the Ends of the Earth

CHELSEA WAGENAAR

Becoming Time

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FICTION

MAY-LEE CHAI

Useful Phrases for Immigrants

WHITNEY COLLINS

The Pupil

BILL GAYTHWAITE

The Forgetting Boy

ANDREW GRETES

Transformations

PHIL HEARN

Scarecrow Divining

SCOTT NADELSON

Trust Me

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INTERVIEWS

KATHERINE BOO (BY MOLLIE SWAYNE)

Alternative Records

DOROTHEA LASKY (BY KATIE CONDON)

The Sort of Bliss I Strive For

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POETRY

LESLIE MARIE AGUILAR

Malinche
Only the men have horns,

KENZIE ALLEN

Particular Bees

JACK B. BEDELL

My Daughter Says, Tell Me

BRANDON JORDAN BROWN

A Particular Sort of Longing

ANNE CHAMPION

St. Catherine of Alexandria

EMILY CORWIN

hello, malaise
rancor

CHELSEA DINGMAN

Letter to My Future (Ex)
Praise for the Natural World

JOSHUA JENNIFER ESPINOZA

Heartbreaker

RITA FEINSTEIN

Definitions of Strength

KRISTIN GEORGE BAGDANOV

Word

SARAH GIRAGOSIAN

River Road

PETER GRANDBOIS

All We Wished to See
Dearest Love

KIMBERLY GREY

We Were Civilized When?

CERIDWEN HALL

After California
Habitation

BOB HICOK

Just checking in
Updating Descartes

ERIN HOOVER

Conversion Party

NICK LANTZ

The Survivorship

ANTONIO LOPEZ

When Ama Asks Me, “Describeme El Escuau?”

ANN STEWART MCBEE

Fragments of Manna Unsent by Sam

NAWAL NADER-FRENCH

Sometimes a Mother is

EMILIA PHILLIPS

My Ob-Gyn Suggests I Consider Cosmetic Labioplasty

JEREMY RADIN

Ode to the Tender Flesh Just beneath My Belly

SIMON SHIEH

Little Snow

MARTHA SILANO

Song

MAGGIE SMITH

At the Zoo

ANALICIA SOTELO

The Minotaur’s Letter to Ariadne
Theseus Returns from the Athens Treatment Center

ANTHONY SUTTON

Birthday

BRIAN TIERNEY

Lagan, Liguria

AVNI VYAS

Marcus Aurelius in Freshman English

FRITZ WARD

From Born
Failing English

JOE WILKINS

Instructions for Poor White Country Boys Wishing to Be Poets

DAVID WINTER

Jasmin et Cigarette

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GRIST ONLINE

ESSAY

SUSAN BRIANTE

Some Notes on the Document after 11/8

FICTION

SARAH KOSCH

Automat

NICKALUS RUPERT

Keep ‘Em in the Cart

NINA SCHUYLER

Need

JESSICA WALKER

Vegas Baby

POETRY

HEATHER ALTFELD

Interview Questions for Death

KIMBERLY ANDREWS

The Collapse
No one needs another poem about the Second World War

JENNIFER JACKSON BERRY

Are they wild or feral?
Linen Birthday

JULIA BOUWSMA

Each Morning Drowns in Open Air
Feeble Minded
Interview with the Dead
Shed Night
The Tray of Spaces

KAYLEB RAE CANDRILLI

My horoscope is my future husband’s horoscope & we are both considering T (or, when Aquarians share all)
My shadow looks more like a man than i do, so i am both fearful and envious
Sinners must live with what their sins sow

PETER LABERGE

Season in Which I Have No Body
Revlon

M.E. MACFARLAND

Interivew

MICHAEL MARBERRY

Admiral Abecedarian
Kalamazoo

KARYNA MCGLYNN

Maw-Maw’s Pineapple Pantsuit
We Sang Mozart’s Requiem in the Back of the Cruiser

SAM ROSS

Indiana, Not Indiana
Livestream
Tableau Vivant

RAENA SHIRALI

the village “goddess” talks to herself while applying kohl
the villagers’ story

BENJAMIN WINKLER

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