We are proud to present
Issue Nineteen
of No Contact
“Lucky Bruce” Meets “The Subversive”
by Gary Lippman
What a Bruce Jay Friedman story from sixty years ago tells us about contemporary America and our own selves.
American Standard
by S. S. Mandani
We time machine through the uncut grass, see the soil; witness the decomposition of our ancestors’ bodies.
Among Their Skin
by Tommy Dean
Come with us, we demanded, we begged, we hedged, but they loped off together, arm in arm, looking back with cruel smiles, knowing at once that we were too afraid to follow.
Oil Change Near Me (A Play in Ten Godless Parts)
by grace (ge) gilbert
i want you
to find art in me
that actually interests you
Attachments;
by Aaron Burch
or, A Short Essay About Email That Turned into a Metaphor for Any Number of Things (see: Divorce, Family, Writing, Regret, ______ (Fill in Your Own Blank))
Ode to Tony Soprano
by Shannon Wolf
the jut of your lip, hard belly, throat bare and vulnerable,
throttled breath in your chest, snake eyes laughing buchiach.
Reunion Café
by Subhravanu Das
There was something evocative about the cabbage — its contours; its likeness to the sun; its likeness to the globe that had been left for Danit at the door, as a gift, on one of his birthdays.
How tormented I’m becoming by revved engines in the night
by Joe Imwalle
nameless nighttime drivers
flooring it, speeding away
as I am not.
Please Wear a Helmet to Protect Your Heart
by Osama Shehzad
What are you scared of?
a. Everything?
A Series of Events
by Kyra Kondis
Margerie wouldn’t call it cheating, what she’s doing with Jonathan, but she wouldn’t call it not cheating, either.
Coprolite #2: Human paleofeces from the Quaternary Period of the Cenozoic Era
by W.A. Hawkins
Human paleofeces from the Quaternary Period of the Cenozoic Era
