We are proud to present
Issue Nine
of No Contact
In Which You Are Elizabeth Bennet in the Year 2020
by Tori Rego
In this version, Darcy is a woman, and you argue over unemployment. Darcy is still proud and flawed and not at all beautiful.
A Brief History in Social Distancing
by Bryan Harvey
At night the storm churned through the overstory
as a shrewdness of apes huddled in the cathedral branches.
Poets in Michigan
by Jill Krupnik
Laura Riding jumped out of a fourth floor window. Perhaps you didn’t know this and why would you?
Donny Can’t Stop Touching the Caravaggio
by Jihoon Park
See that red line on the floor? Stay behind the line Donny.
Epidemiology 101
by Nandini Maharaj
No one ever tells you that you’re going to get your period when you’re ten years old and you’re on a field trip to Six Flags with your fifth grade class.
Joseph Looking for a Manger
by Nathaniel Berry
If you’re a student at Adrian, Docking won’t tell you that his salary is worth sacrificing your life for—but you’ve lived in America long enough now that you should know that’s what he means.
Gloria’s Pet
by Michael Colbert
Meagan describes her subscriptions to the New Yorker as aspirational. Meagan was sleeping with other men and never thought I’d notice.