Issue 22

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA The Tale of Two Amer­i­c­as An Inter­ac­tive Poetic Poetry By Nikki Ummel Answer Key NIKKI UMMEL is a queer artist, editor, and edu­ca­tor in New Orleans. Nikki has been pub­lished or has work forth­com­ing in Gulf Coast,…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Imme’s War Years Poetry By Mia Dyson MIA DYSON was born to a British father and a German mother. She earned a BA from Tufts Uni­ver­si­ty in Inter­na­tion­al Rela­tions and a BS in Nursing from Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty. In…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Ever After Poetry By Gibson Fay-LeBlanc I don’t know how my brother forgave the doctor who missed the melanoma on his scalp and tried to freeze it off before it came back and was every­where.   Or how…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Cross­ings Poetry By Emma Shep­pard The first man I loved would prop the fridge open with his foot and chug two litres of water from  an old green soda bottle that we’d torn the label off of.    He’d…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Summer Help IV Poetry By Emilee Kinney Semi­trucks shed tires often without real­iz­ing, layers left behind until blown out to the rim. It’s hot at the end of the week and with all county medians mowed, foreman assigns…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Chair Poetry By Beneth Gold­schmidt-Sauer CHAIR (French, flesh)   When I try to tell you how a body becomes ceded ter­ri­to­ry I could start by telling you I can’t leave the car’s heater at 69 degrees.   Or…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA How Haunt­ings Happen Fiction By Melissa Ostrom They met. You don’t lie, hit, or trick, she said. You don’t gamble, he said. Not at all like I’m used to, they thought. They married. Stood for the sham…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA The Night Watcher Fiction By Nora Ry I see you: small, upright, and kneel­ing on the sky-blue crin­kles of the knock-off Donald Duck duvet passed down to you from your cousin. Face like a dull round moon…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Human Sign Lan­guage ~ Expla­na­tion Wanted Visual Art by Willy Conley Visual Art WILLY CONLEY is a widely pub­lished writer, pho­tog­ra­ph­er and author of nine books. His most recent titles are: “Space is deaf like me,”…

Stonecoast Review The Lit­er­ary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA Dis­as­ter 2 plus 3&crazyduetoeverydaycraziness Visual Art by Edward Michael Supra­now­icz Visual Art EDWARD MICHAEL SUPRANOWICZ is the grand­son of Irish and Russian/Ukrainian immi­grants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad…