Woman Ironing, by Edgar Degas

Elegy for Overachieving

by

Charlotte Maiorana

October 24, 2024




Further considerations

[fiction]

Quentin Compson Time

By Joseph Kenyon

I took the truck down the rough, narrow trail, rounding the final rutted bend out of the woods and onto the rocky beach surrounding the lake.

[poetry]

Pilliwinks and The Boot and My Head is a Cat B Jug

By Joseph Long

Ain’t that done yet? Ain’t that done? Three words which, // if spoken too soon, sears itself upon // my balloon.

[fiction]

Goat in the Machine

By Jeff Blechle

This morning Yeorgi woke up in his backyard feeling a bruise on his lower back, convinced that stacked chairs and vodka were not his friends, nor was his wife, if he was being honest, or his goat Omar, whose pretense of loyalty clashed with Yeorgi’s trusting nature—and poor little Boots lying dead with light bulb fragments decorating her scant cleavage, well, she was no great pal either, always shoving him into hazardous, life-threatening tasks, always trying to get out of paying him, criticizing.

[poetry]

Liquid Courage and trying magnesium for anxiety

By Jia Yan Tan

but if that doesn’t work then call your mother