We are proud to present

 Issue Twelve: Tricks and Treats

of No Contact

St. Lucy of El Paso
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St. Lucy of El Paso

by Amy Barnes

Buying food for my not-cursed siblings is more important than using precious coins to fill my ghoulish eye sockets.

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Werewolf
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Werewolf

by Satya Dash

raging a hidden stubble burning

bright listen at night I’m more animal

than teeth more waterfall than water

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Porch Song
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Porch Song

by Jack B. Bedell

the old people tell it, oak branches

started scratching frottoir sounds

around the bone yard

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Insect Bellies Full of Fire
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Insect Bellies Full of Fire

by Leslie Ylinen

The Smoldering Woman crept aboard the USS Banneret, docked in warm waters off the coast of North Vietnam.

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A Cast of the Causeway / Liv'd But Three
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A Cast of the Causeway / Liv'd But Three

by Jordan Harrison-Twist

You can be whichever version of yourself you want to be, you tell me. And it needn’t always be the one you seem to choose, who is a pitiful drunk.

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Marmalade
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Marmalade

by Brenna Lee

“Is that the point?” I say aloud to an empty room.

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Bedroom
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Bedroom

by Ameer Malik

Yet, there are traces of blood

On one page here, another page there, remaining between the letters, hanging

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Getting to Know You
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Getting to Know You

by Lauren Swift

I read that you can offer strawberry Fanta

to kind ghosts—is it like this with monsters, too

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Blowing Through
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Blowing Through

by Ross Peterson

The wind or whatever thing or things it carries is doing it again.

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Old Ghosts
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Old Ghosts

by Juleigh Howard-Hobson

We had reasons of our own that keep

Us bound. That kept us here, root tangled

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