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Issue 30 | Spring 2024

May 7, 2024

Issue thirty is searching, seeking, straining for roots, for mothers, for stylish shoes, and The Truth. It’s about mysterious X-rays and golden crabs, motorcycles and masquerades, joyful silences and mild underhavens. It’s voyeuristic, nostalgic, and completely out to sea. 

Featuring daring new work and translations by Jeffrey Kingman, Veronica Wasson, Kasimma, Wilfrido Nolledo, Amy DeBellis, Khalil AbuSharekh, Lina Munar Guevara and Ellen Jones, Daniel David Froid, Ricardo Piglia and Erik Noonan, Bailey Sims, Francisco García González and Bradley J. Nelson, William Aarnes, Philip Jason, Bruno Lloret and Ellen Jones, Betsy Martin, Nicole F. Kimball, and Alvin Lu.

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Zeppole (aka Awama)

May 7, 2024

Khalil AbuSharekh

“When it arrived, it looked familiar—like the Palestinian dessert known as “awama” (donut balls), but this time topped with chocolate syrup. I took a bite. Immediately the taste transported me far, far away in time and place. I remembered I hadn’t tasted this flavor for over fifteen years.”

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The Embassy

Nov 6, 2021

Khalil AbuSharekh

“I connected with her because, like her, I sit in our family grocery store every day. I found them to be like us: family, traditions, war, and now they are a strong country. Japanese people are exactly like us, but advanced.”

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Issue 25 | Fall 2021

Nov 1, 2021

Your Impossible Voice #25 opens with a story of love, loneliness, and DJs in Argentina, and closes with wayward Taco Bell bandits loose in the Buckeye state. In between, it delivers new short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction exploring anaphylactic reactions to dust, languages that sound like bonfire flames, dollar-store groceries, golden molars and nectars, witchy weather apps, migraines, matricide, and so much more.

Contributors include Cecilia Pavón and Jacob Steinberg, Robert Lopez, Shin Yu Pai, Brian Henry, Daryll Delgado, Linda Morales Caballero and Marko Miletich, PhD, Caroline Fernelius, Emilee Prado, Robert(a) Ruisza Marshall, Khalil AbuSharekh, Mercury-Marvin Sunderland, Gillian Parrish, Steve Bargdill, Diti Ronen and Joanna Chen, Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Kevin McIlvoy, Adhimas Prasetyo and Liswindio Apendicaesar, and Tamiko Dooley. Cover art by Despy Boutris.

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Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.

—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases”

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