COVER: RACHAEL SOGLIN
Pink Girl (painting)
INTERVIEW: Pam Welder
MATT DEVLIN (fiction) Once Upon a Time in Utopia
FRANKLIN FRADTNER Amalgamatic Themes
JOSH HARPER (assisted readymade) Fashionable Descent
RUDYARD KIPLING (poem) If…
SAUL LIPSCHITZ (poem) The Teleosolipsist
SABRINA LOPEZ'S SCIENCE PAGE: The Mitochondrion
CARL LUTZ (political cartoons) The Senescence of Democracy, 7–12
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (poem) First Fig
BILL MURRAY Bons Mots
NATALIE RADCLIFFE (sculpture series) A HYPATIAN DISCOURSE IN FOUR VOICES
Antiquity
Modern
Resignation
Fury
CAMILA RAMONE (fiction) Children, Behave
RACHAEL SOGLILN (painting series) EVILxCUTExFOREVER
STACIA STARK (tabloid story) Train Wrecks: A Terse Account of the Dissolute Lives of Bill Bulreck and Katerina Trankovskaya
TIMOTHY SYNCLAIR (fiction) Concentration and Dissemination
KILGORE TROUT (fiction) A Tennessee Confederate in Supreme Leader Zorbon-Bok-Bok’s Space Court
PAM WELDER (essay) On Liberty
Rachael Soglin is an artist and actress based in Chicago. She has been known to captivate audiences not only on stage, but also with her live-painting events, from which we got both of her cover paintings.
This issue was another milestone for us. It’s publication signified two years of the magazine. Two years of continued success and growth. Two years of accomplishment and pride. Two years of living the dream, with all the struggle and satisfaction that entails. For this issue we were proud to feature another exceptional talent from the neighborhood…
