We are proud to present
Issue Eight
of No Contact
Inheritance
by Bryan Schutmaat and Liza Stewart
Chipped paint and unkempt lawns, grass poking through cracks in the paved lots—spaces abandoned to the belief that hard times could be left behind.
What Do I Wear To Pick Up The Guy From Sober Living I Want to Fuck?
by Suzanne Richardson
I dress in coal
black on black
It has been five years / Beer
by Francine Witte
Let’s start with Sarah’s ringless hand gripping a beer mug. Spidery fingers and her eye on the door.
Another Love Poem / Elegy
by Despy Boutris
This is an ode to you in your sweats,
sitting on the couch, reading the paper
It’s 5am-ish, and my father tells me a story from his time in Singapore
by Exodus Oktavia Brownlow
It is 5am-ish in the morning, and the sky is just beginning to become.
A Few Young People Lucky Enough
by Jocelyn M. Ulevicus
There is a lonely suffering now of something I feel but cannot name, an inherited memory of hunger belonging, and not quite belonging to me, the person of me in this moment.
Wheels / Light
by Gale Acuff
I don't want to go to Hell when I die
but I could do worse I tell my Sunday
School teacher
The Girl in the Tampon Commercial
by Jemimah Wei
In the ad, a single dandelion seed floats in the air, following Jennie as she rides effortlessly through a field of lalang on a baby blue bicycle.