One ice-green candle, lit. Andrea, we can’t go on meeting like this. One ice-blue candle, lit. But now that I have you here, I want you to know that pink was Beethoven’s favorite color. Spoon on the left, then knife. Dinner fork, appetizer fork, dessert fork. How do you like your steak? (Medium rare, two inches thick, char-broiled, like Dad makes, juicy. Ask me another question.) What do you like for dessert? (Cherry cheesecake with drippy cherry on top or flaming.) Andrea, I’ve been trying to tell you this for a very long time. Here’s the champagne.
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Issue 111, published July 2024, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and visual art by Philip Arnold, Elise Ball, Omar Bárcena, Lucy Bryan, James Caton, Hannah Cook, Shutta Crum, Alan Elyshevitz, Matthew James Friday, Michael Hardin, Bob Haynes, Elizabeth Hill, Courtney Hitson, Justin Lowe, Jen McConnell, Kathy McConnell, mnemonixART, Joseph Charles Mollica, Michelle Morouse, Edie Noesser, Ernst Perdriel, Patrick T. Reardon, Michael C. Roberts, Dave Sims, VA Smith, Sharon Lee Snow, Jonah Sheen Tan, Josje Weusten, S.E.White, Holly Willis, Ellen June Wright, and Caitie Young.