The Something Issue

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Feb 1

Written By Dave Housley

From 2019: What would happen if a literary magazine said, instead of Send Us Your Best Work, Send Us Work You Love?

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Letter from the Editor, by Erin Fitzgerald

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Last year, Barrelhouse got to wondering: What would happen if a literary magazine said, instead of Send Us Your Best Work, Send Us Work You Love?

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Office Ladies, by Clara Cristofaro

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The office ladies have opinions. They’ve been here longer than you. They’ve worked in this office since you were in university, twenty years ago.

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Body Oracle, by Kim Young

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Maybe it’s not so bad to be promiscuous says my mom over Indian food that day we had lunch now that she’s 70 and her body has created phantom pain.

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Maiden’s Last Cream, by Caroll Sun Yang

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Niggling. Is the feeling, the right word. The sensation is Belladonna Blue. Like a Ford Falcon tilting on a muted roadside, dusky Oleander petals slide across the dash, one she loves me/ two she loves me still.

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The Hardest Thing in this World is to Live In It, by Gaynor Jones

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So then Marcia peels back her collar to show us the two white marks on her neck, like we haven’t seen them every year, these two faded knots in a parallel line glaring out from her store-bought tan and as she strokes them

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How to Salvage Cracked Eggs, by Matt Muilenburg

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No, you don’t sound like a pedophile, silly. You’re a man of God playing Yahweh's Greatest Hits, from Genesis to Golgotha. The parents at the park trust you for this reason alone.

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I fall asleep waiting for a call from the tribunal waiting for the elders to get here with their sacrificial blade I fall asleep before I die I want more dreams, by Danielle Pafunda

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unbleached demeters stand in line and I'm beside a demeter loudly sobbing she says: each day this belief must contain / us / a we that's made of previously whole persons the mythology that there are previously / whole people

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Skin Palace, by Justin Greene

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You go to shake my hand but you don’t because I’ve bled. My nails are dark in random corners but they are not random, these corners, the state of things. I am meticulous. I

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