We are proud to present
Issue Seventeen
of No Contact
![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
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Box Elders / Summer of ‘66
by Robert Vaughan
I taught myself to disappear, that summer we moved into a duplex without dad.
![My Daughter Already Knows All the Words](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e6d260f3d87147acf37579/1643549724597-NRB3UB06A19L2TQOVHH1/NC-bedell-1.png)
My Daughter Already Knows All the Words
by Jack B. Bedell
And I want her to be able to say “okay” and mean it. To know the difference between asking and praying.