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““At exactly the age when I might
tie my mother’s hospital gown,
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Nicholas Yingling
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Gaya Lastovjak
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1 May 2026
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Mary Simmons
“When we ran between the trees,
what if we were
weaving in & out
of ourselves? Our greedy maws.
Our bloated song. Furred
and dressed like little porcelain things.
We knew each other. Fingertips
to fingertips, a shiver.”
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Janel Comeau
“She was doubled somehow, one version of her hunched under the other, as though I was looking cross-eyed through 3D spectacles.”
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“Often,
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Megan Poe
“82 lines of iambic pantameter, written sometime between Byron’s lustful and fleeting affair with his half-sister, and his debilitating infatuation with a fellow choir boy, “Darkness” is the apocalypse poem that gores the beauty of the sublime. In the crooked symphony of Coleridge and Wordsworth’s aeolian lyres and dulcimers, “Darkness” is a heavy metal thrash.”
Fugue Literary Journal
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fiction, essays, hybrid work, and visual art from established and emerging writers and artists.
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Issue 66
Spring 2026
Featuring
Mialise Carney, Alyx Chandler, Jordan Cobb, Janel Comeau, Renesha Dhanraj, Matthew Dickman, Lindsey Drager, Justin Evans, Leila Farjami, Ira Goga, Satori Good, Shana Graham, Chelsea Guo, Emily Harman, Jeni Prater, Justin Taroli
Cover Art
Gaya Lastovjak