Issue 10 Editor’s Pick
  • Icy Blu Daniel

Midwestern Relics — A Photo Gallery & Interview
Midwestern Relics — A Photo Gallery & Interview 1920 1280 Icy Blu Daniel

We are thrilled to interview and feature the photography of Icy Blu Daniel. Follow her on Instagram @ohiorelics.   Barren: You have a very keen eye for what makes for a…
  • Derek Pfeffer

Knots
Knots 960 834 Derek Pfeffer

The leader twists stupidly in the air, impotently, beneath his giant hand. He looks at it in disgust, spits into the dirt of the river bank: a bad knot. In…
  • Kevin Winchester

In A Familiar America
In A Familiar America 960 960 Kevin Winchester

A cliché: A quiet house that looks like a house in a familiar America. The upstairs bedroom adorned with pastel lamp, quilted flowered comforter, tie-backs on the curtains, muted sunlight…
  • Hannah Storm

Trophies
Trophies 1920 1440 Hannah Storm

You keep your medals under the bed we no longer share. You unwrap them carefully, caressing the yellow paper with a lover’s touch. You never touched me like that. When…
  • Mariel Fechik

In hospitals, they have small pink trays
In hospitals, they have small pink trays 1920 1897 Mariel Fechik

for you to spill yourself into, stacked neatly on the sideboard in the shape of kidneys, softened sickles, the color of rosewater, the color of blood in water. In hospitals…
  • Ulrica Hume

Mistress of Alchemy
Mistress of Alchemy 1280 851 Ulrica Hume

History could have been so different, you once said. And it is true: reality is slippery, evanescent, problematic, perhaps it is all for the best that a peasant goes on…
  • Todd Dillard

Newly Wed in the Dominican Republic
Newly Wed in the Dominican Republic 900 1600 Todd Dillard

We wandered the beach before dawn, the tide thieving the white beneath our feet. At the edge of the resort property a man with a rifle emerged from the jungle,…

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