I have short work in Pank 5. But I don’t read my own writing in journals. I read what else is in them. & in PANK No. 5, holy shit, a whirlwind. Click through to read some of the lovelies I met there:
Colleen O’Connor, from Choked (A Love Song):
‘You want to fall
in love so you
lengthen your noose
for two necks, fray
your ropes.’
Mindy Hung, from Eva:
‘A man once fell in love with my navel. He had other problems, of course. He had terrible acne and a wife who looked like a goose. His children, oddly, did not resemble her at all. They were, in fact, so beautiful that they were unreal–almost translucent.’
Kathleen Heil, from Vete a La Porra:
‘I understood as
fuck you
though that reveals not only
what I do not know
sino
something about my old
habit of hitting where
it hurts’
Megan Falley, from Scenes from a Courtyard Marriot:
‘I undressed
the complimentary pillow chocolate
while he turned on the television,
mumbled something about the expense
of room service.
I wasn’t worth it.‘
Elizabeth Hildreth, from Art of Killing a Party (A Translation of Art of a Party):
‘The art of killing a party is to explain why nothing can be explained because the world’s swinging with objects that aren’t really at the end of the rope. It’s like choking on a river while your parents are straddling each other in the next room over, thinking, wait…what was he supposed to be about?’
If you haven’t already, get this issue.
From the looks of it, Luca Dipierro’s cover art will scorch your hands.
Yes it will!
received a google alert with my name this morning and found my way to this — thank you for letting my words surface after wading through so many wonderful ones in this issue. will look for your work in PANK when I return home to my stacks… light.
Glad you found your way here Megan – I thought your work was particularly great in this issue – I’m looking forward to reading more of your writing in other places. Be well,