Something’s Missing

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Feb 1

Written By Dave Housley

From 2022: An Issue Guest Edited by Students in Temple University’s Writers at Work Class, Fall 2021

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Something's Missing Issue, Poetry

Three Poems, by Ashia Ajani

Something's Missing Issue, Poetry

you either get wrinkly or you get fat

and everybody in the Lucas family has a belly

hot food and song undo this sadness

Something's Missing Issue, Poetry

Three Poems, by Dani Putney

Something's Missing Issue, Poetry

Some figures (2, 3, & 6) have been redacted from this catalog due to copyright constraints. The gallery apologizes in advance for the inconvenience.

Something's Missing Issue, Poetry

Invisible Art, by Laura Glenn

Something's Missing Issue, Poetry

I loved the way she captured light in glass, and so I asked, Could we paint together?

Something's Missing Issue, Poetry

Synthetic Love, by Lisa Fay Coutley

Something's Missing Issue, Poetry

In case the car starts on fire while he’s hang gliding, Everardpins a note to his love’s chest

Something's Missing Issue, Poetry

Big Bang, by Dhwanee Goyal

Something's Missing Issue, Poetry

The lady on the bus has eyes all over this city,

big and blue and leaking.

Something's Missing Issue, Poetry

Something's Missing Issue, Nonfiction

Yes and No, by Paulette Perhach

Something's Missing Issue, Nonfiction

An application asks, “Have you ever been suicidal?” Offers two options: Yes or No.

Something's Missing Issue, Nonfiction

Witnessing, by Jennifer McGaha

Something's Missing Issue, Nonfiction

On a lazy, last-gasp-of-summer sort of day, I linger on the patio of a south Asheville bakery. Leaning back in my chair, I marvel at the warmth, at the music drifting over from a nearby brewery, at my good fortune for having arrived here on what would have been, COVID notwithstanding, a perfectly normal Friday.

Something's Missing Issue, Nonfiction

Something's Missing Issue

Steel Anniversary, by Noa Covo

Something's Missing Issue

The girl’s mother takes her to sharpen her fingers into knives on her seventeenth birthday. Outside the salon, a flock of teenagers congregate, examining each others’ hands in the sun.

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Something's Missing Issue, Fiction

Transcript for a Clip Show for a Sitcom that Doesn’t Exist, by Joshua Bohnsack

Something's Missing Issue, Fiction

Flashlights clicking.

“I can’t believe the power went out, right before the big game.”

“Who would have thought?”

“Well, what are we going to do now?”

Something's Missing Issue, Fiction

Fiction, Something's Missing Issue

Nehalennia, by Daniel J. Cecil

Fiction, Something's Missing Issue

My wife and I were sick in November. Historically a healthy pair, we’d unexpectedly fallen victim to the pandemic all over the news, an abstraction that we could now experience as reality from the comfort of our home.

Fiction, Something's Missing Issue

Something's Missing Issue, Fiction

The Case Enhancement Package of Your Dreams, by Jess Richardson

Something's Missing Issue, Fiction

No matter what the disembodied chose at the end of the incarnate line, they regretted it upon return.

Something's Missing Issue, Fiction

At the Darling Slaughterhouse, by Kayleigh Shoen

Something's Missing Issue, Fiction

On my first day, they put me on novellas. A lot of the greats got their start here, the manager said. After a few months’ experience, you’ll work your way down.

Something's Missing Issue, Fiction

Something’s Missing Issue: A Note to the Reader

Something's Missing Issue, Fiction

Invisible art, missing people, killing your darlings, clip show coherence. From the mundane to the life-changing: something’s missing. Something, whether fingers, parents, scent, love, or words—somehow, somewhere, they’re gone. Lost. Taken. Dead. Missing.

Something's Missing Issue, Fiction

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Dave Housley

Something’s Missing

From 2022: An Issue Guest Edited by Students in Temple University’s Writers at Work Class, Fall 2021

The Bowtie Statement, by Tom Williams

Funky Flash