We are proud to present
Issue Seventeen
of No Contact
![Tinnitus](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e6d260f3d87147acf37579/1643547024345-BLJG8EUEAMK9SRD6OPNE/NC-tinnitus-13.png)
![Don’t Mention It](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e6d260f3d87147acf37579/1643547614687-VX9JFVT8S0MT1A8XIEUO/NC-hopple-1.png)
Don’t Mention It
by Claire Hopple
I take things personally like anyone else, including the quote on my chocolate wrapper.
![Constant Flow](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e6d260f3d87147acf37579/1643547892302-74I0NGYV1ZEHLZFLWJIT/NC-chella-1.png)
Constant Flow
by Chella Courington
counting years like a handful of coins, knowing they would be spent for trinkets, a pair of gold earrings or the mermaid wind chime sculpted from copper wire
![Box Elders / Summer of ‘66](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e6d260f3d87147acf37579/1643549123960-YYQ93WYTQ76Y77AIC9KM/NC-Vaughan-1.png)
Box Elders / Summer of ‘66
by Robert Vaughan
I taught myself to disappear, that summer we moved into a duplex without dad.
![Awake](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e6d260f3d87147acf37579/1643550466033-Z3HPTCRFVTNKNWBPXCWW/NC-icecream-2.png)