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Issue 41

March 2024


Over the Yiousouri Tree

by Avra Margariti

There is a tree in the sea and it births monsters. Or so Mana says as we lift the nets bulging with the morning catch. The nets are woven out of dried seaweed snagged against our boat, and old sailor-rope grown soft with the water’s erosive tongue. […]

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Kuebiko

by Richard Thomas

The boy wandered into the dense woods behind his house, following a solitary dirt path deep into the shadows, a song in his heart, as spring unfolded around him, daffodils violating the earth, underneath it all a musty rot. […]

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Memories Held Against a Hungry Mouth

by Ann LeBlanc

Professor Iris believes there is nowhere better to eat a sandwich than a folding chair set ten meters across the border where the world dissolves into epistemological blankness. […]

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Not the Act

by Erica Clashe

I’m mean and I need more. I don’t care what I disrupt. Desire pilots. My life goes on a sleepwalk. I feel sick with this love that won’t die. What they call mad love. […]

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Issue 41

March 2024

3LBE 41

Front & Back cover art by Rew X