We are proud to present
Issue Ten
of No Contact
how to talk to your aphasic, mentally ill, brain damaged, post-alcoholic father while sitting at a slight distance from him in a cool river on a hot day in July
by Laura Winberry
the one-liner bio on Andrew Cuomo’s Twitter account reads:
father, fisherman, motorcycle enthusiast, 56th Governor of New York.
How to Avoid the Living / Disaster Planning
by Rhienna Renèe Guedry
I picked Oregon because I was tired of the floods and hurricanes and I didn’t pick California because they have their own problems.
My Own Private Idaho / XXX
by Dominic Calderon
you went to a repertory screening of se7en at eight
by nine he made the joke
you know the one
Prayer / The Space Between
by Kathryn Paul
How many times have I disappeared
empty-handed, abandoning
books, dishes, afghans, and men, always
County Fair / Goodbye, Hollywood
by Matt Mitchell
what happened to making out by the chained-link fence
protecting the Apollo 11 replica downtown?
is it even jealousy if i don't love you anymore
by Zain Murdock
i ask the cashier if they sell vodka here
she says, ma’am this is a trader joe’s
& i say, ah, yeah,
White Pine
by Michael Aurelio
We lay on wooden pallets
five torsos ten arms ten legs thread and spool