Summer 2023

Dedicated to Nicholas Johnson and Maureen Holm, co-founders of BigCityLit

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Nicholas Johnson

Poetry

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A Weekend in the Catskills: A Tribute to Maureen Holm

by N.G. Haiduck

Confessions

by Rosalie Hendon

Hidden Agenda/Virtue/Crisis

by Scott Thomas Outlar

If I had Guilt

by Allison Collins

in defense of the word “fuck”

by Liam Strong

Love Poem

by Kurt Olsson

Psalm

by J.B. Kalf

Remington Portable

by Bruce Parker

SHADOW BODY

by Lawrence Ernest Bridges

The Day’s Attempts

by Winston Widjaja Lin

The Toothbrush

by Sue Guiney

YOU EMAIL AN INVITE TO MEET FOR COFFEE AND I TAKE FOUR DAYS TO RESPOND

by Shoshauna Shy

Fiction

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Driving in the Dark

by Jo-Anne Rosen

Fires

by Les Bohem

Jane Avril: Endless String of Firecrackers

by Melinda Thomsen

Lucy Needs Work

by Sarah Sarai

Swimming Against the Desert

by Bill Kitcher

The Orchid

by Cullen McMahon

Nonfiction

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How We Became New York

by Michelle Cacho-Negrete

This Time

by J. David

Touched By a Mouse

by Thaddeus Rutkowski

Book Reviews

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Ilka Scobie’s Any Island

Review by Daphne Astor

In Love with Death and Poetry

Review by Victoria Reynolds