The End of the World – June 2022

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NON F ICT ION

Everything Past Iron By Kerri Goers

It was a corner room with walls at odd angles, making the bed and adjacent chair a tight fit. The walls were painted a generic tan with peach undertones, the bland institutional color of hospitals, prisons, and schools, sold in bulk and one shade off from cement. The bathroom had a commode in the shower, metal handrails along the wall and next to the toilet, and three pull cords for emergencies, which struck me as excessive and then alarming. I sat in an oversized plastic upholstered recliner. My husband, Eric, lay on the bed, exhausted from a night in the emergency room and eighteen hours without food. His head was turned toward me, and I watched the violent percussive way his chest rose and fell, out of sync with the pulsating carotid of his neck. Loud beating rotors of a Life Flight drew my attention to the small window of our room. I watched the helicopter’s shadow flutter over the building. The beating rotors grew faint. Eric slept – oblivious to it all. He was in atrial fibrillation: a fast irregular beating of the atrium that is out of sync with the ventricles of the lower heart. It’s an inadequate heartbeat that doesn’t allow


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pages 160-166

Biographies

6min
pages 154-159

Everything Past Iron

11min
pages 145-153

NONFICTION | Kerri Goers The Pleiades

2min
pages 143-144

NONFICTION | Claudia Simone Franklin A Cartography of What is Left: A German Lyric Bavaria and Berlin 1945

4min
pages 134-137

FICTION | Keli Flynn Davidson Puissance

12min
pages 124-131

Berlin, 1945 and 1947, East Kingston, 2015

5min
pages 138-142

of Georgia O’Keeffe

1min
pages 122-123

A shame about the money

1min
page 121

I’m Easy

1min
pages 119-120

Mother and Child

1min
page 118

POETRY | Krysia Wazny McClain The Blur

1min
pages 116-117

FICTION | Meiko Ko The Broken Nose

14min
pages 107-115

FICTION | Logan Royce Beitmen Shooting Barin Ghosh

13min
pages 96-106

Alexandria

3min
pages 85-88

Battleships and Billfish

7min
pages 91-95

American Airlines DFW > DTW

1min
pages 89-90

Unspool

1min
page 84

FICTION | Michele Feeney Like Family

16min
pages 70-80

POETRY | Richard Brait Reading the Spanish Flu, 2020

5min
pages 64-69

NONFICTION | Patricia Martin PRIDE

6min
pages 52-56

FICTION | Gina Fallas-Rodriguez A Voice

3min
pages 57-59

The Empress’ Attire

4min
pages 60-63

FICTION | James Roseman The Intermediary of Abraham

11min
pages 44-51

Upstate, Damian

1min
page 43

Brandon is a Wig Maker

1min
page 42

Sunshine Park

1min
pages 40-41

Milk

1min
pages 13-14

POETRY | Claressinka Anderson He Sends Me Blue Mountains, a Field

1min
pages 11-12

Manhunt

1min
pages 17-18

FICTION | Lucy Faye Rosenthal Neither Here nor There

19min
pages 25-36

POETRY | Nico Amador On Continuation

1min
pages 37-38

Bottleneck

1min
page 39

If I Were There

1min
page 24
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