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UPDATED POSTER Euphony and Memoryhouse are having a joint launch party to release our spring issues! Come join us at Hallowed this Thursday, 5:30pm-7pm, to listen to some awesome music and grab copies of our latest issues. Performances by Puddlejumper, Leila, and Jake Marsh, as well as an open mic for poetry and songs. Bring your friends and come celebrate with us! :) LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, the COVER REVEAL youve all been waiting for!!! Thank you to the wonderful and talented David Edwards @daviid.e for this beautiful photo. Issue finalization is in the process as I type, and I can promise there are some amazing poems and short stories in store for you this spring!! Barnacles and burning stumps and GOTH GOODNESS!! Oh my! Lot of words on this post. It’s okay, you’re all readers and writers. More info can be found on our website!! SUBMIT!! ONE MORE DAY!!!! See the website link in bio for more information!!! OPEN MIC AT HALLOWED ON FRIDAY! Get in the Valentine’s Day spirit (💘💐) or throw it out the window (💔🥀). We don’t care. We just want to hear your music and poetry! Bring all your friends for a fun Friday evening! :) pssst…. PSSSST!!!! What’s that? It’s time for our ANNUAL PROSE CONTEST????? Submit your recreations, retelling, adaptations, etc., of a MYTH OR FAIRY TALE by FEBRUARY 17 FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN 20 WHOLE DOLLARS!!!! DM for details and GET WRITING Don’t miss our launch party this Friday at Hallowed Grounds! Stop by from 5:30-7:30 for live performances from Jake Marsh, Jhung, and Puddle Jumper, as well as readings from our newest issue. Bring your friends and hang out with us!! :) Happy Holidays, Euphoneers! We’re back with another staff bookcase tour. Today we have @sammy.aiko , our wonderful poetry editor! What’s everyone reading this winter break?

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Category: Fiction

Prose: “Welterweight” by Nick Avalos

Owen stood in the boxing ring in the back of Bichelmayer’s Meat Market, using the edge of a turnbuckle to press the swollen flesh away from his eye. Breath came ragged through his teeth and exhalation whistled through a crack in his nose. His hearing, gone, blasted by the cacophony of the crowd. […]

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PROSE: “The Cut” by Hannah Wilson-Black

Oh no. Oh no.
How did she forget about this?
Yes, the Cape Cod Bryerson Family Reunion Weekend always sneaks up on you like a cardigan-wearing endangered leopard, but this time, when it’s really important, she forgets? […]

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Prose: “It’s later than you think” By June Villers

In the moments before he fell asleep with his foot on the gas, driving a tractor-trailer with no trailer, sometime in late July, 2001, and thirty-four miles from his exit on the I-98, Dea came to think about a time just after his infancy, when he’d visited his great aunt’s farm. […]

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Prose: “Ten Last Photos and the distance.” by Kevin Danko

Ten last photos and the distance. He wore frayed khakis and a knit tie, the least formality for his work which he was sure he remembered. He must have had a coat but he found himself in inappropriate sandals, or worse, barefoot. He could only recognize himself from recollection, or maybe in the reflection of […]

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Prose: “What is Wisdom?” by Frank Richards

1. A Person of Destiny Mr. Tsutomo Yamaguchi had almost reached the downtown train station when he realized he might have forgotten his travel pass. As he walked, he checked each of his suit pockets, but he already suspected, with a sinking feeling, that he’d left it at the office they had last visited. Without […]

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Prose: “The Box Left Behind” By Reema Saleh

Evening light ripped pink through the sky as Aisha ran up the hill with paint-splotched high tops that didn’t change from season to season. She made her way up the hill to the house overlooking the lake, half-expecting the blue tones of the house to fade, half-expecting the hill to be empty, like the old house withered […]

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Prose: “The Grief Response” by Paul García

Alma sleeping beside him, he stared at the ceiling. These days the house was too quiet. Sorrow sat on his chest. Tears flowed from his eyes, soundless as the empty room across the hall. Like going away, to stay, you know, for good… Always daring, all his life he’d taken chances, faced down bullies and […]

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Prose: “Practice” by Matthew Fiander

I’m not the tell-me-your-troubles kind of bartender. I keep to myself. Stand-offish was how one drunk guy put it once — the bar held him up as he slurred through some sob-story about his wife or girlfriend or money — but I don’t know about all that. I just do my job, act as gatekeeper […]

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Prose: “Tin’s Grand Entrance” by Alan Gartenhaus

We called her Tin, and she had been old all our lives. She was already in her late sixties when my mother and her brothers were kids and christened her “Tin,” abbreviating her name––as young children are wont to do––from “Tante Lillian” to “Ta-lin” to “Tin.” The nickname stuck. Now, at age ninety-eight, Tin was […]

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FICTION: “The Yosemite Bear Bandits” by Frank Scozzari

The silence of the midnight valley was broken by the patter of running feet. Then came the cry—“Bear!” And again, a different voice, “Bear! Bear!” And then a chorus of “Bears!” Lantern lights came on, flashlight beams cut through the darkness, and my two buddies came shuffling past me, grinning. “Tea time,” Rob said. He […]

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