Tender Three

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CHARLOTTEDRURY

NOELLEKOCOT

ANGELADALINGER

MINKKANG

VICKISHER

ALYSEBURNSIDE

MOLLYMATALON

LINDAKUNHARDT

EDENVEAUDRY

ANNAH-LAURENBLOOM

CAROLINEPICARD

FIONABENSON

REBEKAHFRUMKIN

JENMAY

BristleStill Life with Grandmothers Vase

Guilt

Treatise for the Gone World

The DevotionDrinkin with My Bitches

Stupid Face with Glasses

Shopping at Sams Club

PunchX

The Human Equivalent ofa Climbing Wall Over A Pool

UntitledMom in her honeymoon suite

UntitledMom at the old house

ItSentence, QuestionRhea Shaves Head

three drawings

NEW YORK

Fortuna and the Moth Invasion

Foetal Pole

Late to the Party

Horror Blood Women

AQUARTERLYJOURNALMADEBYWOMEN

CHARLOTTE DRURY

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CHARLOTTE DRURY NOELLE KOCOT

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Guilt

Do you think youre all pure and shit?

Because I dont think youre all pure and shit.

You have scars a mile long,

You are as old as the last ring

On a tree trunk,

But you dont smash it,

Not yet, not ever.


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NOELLE KOCOT

Treatise for the Gone World

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ANGELA DALINGER

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ANGELA DALINGER ANGELA DALINGER

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MIN K KANG

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MIN K KANG

(hands on desk)

***

still delaying the same

***

explaining

like it is never ending

***

cute thoughts

bad thoughts...

***

cannot stop until

IXout my Os

slip ona skirt that says lets go

Shopping at Sams Club

big

to be carried out by this body

bright boxes

gallon tins


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VICKI SHER VICKI SHER


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ALYSE BURNSIDE

THEHUMANEQUIVALENT

OFACLIMBINGWALLOVERAPOOL

When I meet Amelia Gray I am volunteering for a well-

known literary magazine at a book fair set up in a bar

that smells so consistently of vomit that when I think of

ESSAY

pop singers on the cover, and they take them home

to their lonely apartments and they open up these

men are emotionally delayed, they have medical

diagnoses, and they are one letter, phone call, or

Hes gotten too weird. And the

that said KORG and colored pedals all around me.

-

-

pointing up at me in a gesture that seemed to say,

-

-

-

ALYSE BURNSIDE

they mean to me, and that this isnt something they

I am harmless.

day. We have pleasant conversation. We drink

beers that he buys (nice ones), then beers I buy

am someone important. I say nothing to convince

Amelia Gray is posted at a booth at the opposite

-

around her laugh, they pat her on the shoulder. I

nervous about her approaching my table, then

City. I tell her Ive never been to the rec-center,

ask her to sign it. We are no longer humans talking

book. When she hands it back to me she says it


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ALYSE BURNSIDE

-broidery project together, or driving in the middle

and eating ourselves sick in the parking lot. A man

approaches the booth and he and Amelia have a

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like to meet that person, urge you to keep talking,

not to believe that you have surpassed a threshold

belittle your experience either. Your experience

I choose an illogical path home. I choose residen-

I open Amelias book on the title page. She has

-

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and she laughs and says dont be ridiculous. But

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near to me. We thank the internet and its ability

to make the miles disappear. At times, it seems

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membering that I am not there to appreciate these

small things.

Church bells ring in my neighborhood. I think to

ALYSE BURNSIDE

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I decide that this is the correct interpretation. I

When I get to the grocery store, though, I consider

be her, or have her live on my body like a tumor.

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and it scares the dog.

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spaghetti. I sit at the dining room table and I say,

his brother, and he tells his brother that hes sorry,

so much that she starts coughing. I hold her, but I

cant hold her hard enough or long enough. I tell

makes her cry again, so I hold her again, and she

cries until the dog runs into the street, and she yells

at the dog, and the dog runs at her and this makes

makes us laugh.

stops crying and begins again. We hold hands on

church across the street opens its arms to its con-

gregation.


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MOLLY MATALON

MOLLY MATALON


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MOLLY MATALON

MOLLY MATALON


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LINDA KUNHARDT LINDA KUNHARDT

It

is the

nineteenth

(20th in leap years)

in the Gregorian calendar.

So instead, she earned a living

Sentence, Question

Sentence, Question

on tam-o-shanters.

*

Why do streetlights

*

She loves him, thus

she smokes him.

*

Where is the juncture

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LINDA KUNHARDT

Rhea Shaves Head

I.

Blue cheese cheese

reckless. Blue

cheese cheese balls.

II.

Rhea

East, cheese balls, east

III.

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EDEN VEAUDRY


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EDEN VEAUDRY EDEN VEAUDRY

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ANNAH- LAUREN BLOOM

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NEW YORK

Well,

Well, I say, speaking,

Well, (mother speaking)

Well,

the Lake:

b) glints in the sun

the Air:

hangs still over it

like a great big bloody nose

CAROLINE PICARD


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FIONA BENSON

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Foetal Pole

Same remnants on the scan

the small, spoilt yolk

What made Devi desirable was just how far she hadnt come

since high school. She had the daisy bras and B-cups of a

sounding and noncommittal hi and then just drill

Dallas), Abel (last name), a rando named Donny

and sometimes (albeit needlessly) assumed a

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didnt decline.

FICTION

REBEKAH FRUMKIN

LATETOTHEPARTY


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REBEKAH FRUMKIN

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deadhead Christmas morning, delighting as they

and theyd all been drinking since noon. Add to

home already to spend spring break playing video

games, meaning that Lee et al. had the school to

themselves.

over-straightened hair, alternately scrunching up

and stretching out her pugs nose. Lee held the

her: hrny as fuk. As soon as hed done this he re-

ya me 2 cum oer

Were at the rest stop with the Starbucks before the

minutes.

Leland Sr.s psychotic chicken scratch.

Did you get my lasttext?

k.

other immediately as kindred spirits and so had

ready to tear shit up by the timethat

REBEKAH FRUMKIN

Where are you going?

high school. She had the daisy bras and B-cups

She straightened her hair mercilessly, just as the

popular girls had done at Lees high school, and

a prospective Biology major and, to Lees disap-

clueless about irony, used the internet improperly,

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she him

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next room beginning to sing R. Kellys Ignition

(Remix) and the dorm virtually unoccupied, she

Getback hurr.

one hand at her back, one at her ass, as though she

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Were you asleep? he asked.

to her vanity. When she sat she too had a small

and-mouse, holier-than-thou social game except

the head by an idea: Devis dorm room could just

as easily have been the high school band room.Which meant she could just as easily have been

raven-haired Maria Timpano. For a glorious

- She was

Maria Timpano.


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REBEKAH FRUMKIN

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reapply her makeup.

thing grounding him in bread-and-butter reality.

Your brother and I are actually just about to get

OK.

dinner.

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him to long, cathartic crying jags as a child.

Yeah, sure, he said.

Are you OK? You sound a little preoccupied.

and bright green in the mirror.

Lee?

She blinked those alien eyes and snarled her girl-

Go on.

you, sorry. But you dont give me many concrete

reason-giving business, I guess.

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Ilsa. Casablanca

- -

rang again and that set the ground pounding at the

same rate as his heart. At an impossible-to-sustain

about you?

REBEKAH FRUMKIN

at the ground.

Yeah.

-

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retarial tone. Im sorry, maam. Your son cant

Yeah. It usually does.

being.

gets better.

-

-citing happen: What the fuck is wrong, man? Do

your thing!

Im not her son, Lee said.

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right?

Fuck.

What?

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REBEKAH FRUMKIN

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anymore.

-stood so little about Leland Sr.

your brain cant ever die, because its pretty much

gland, too, and his anterior cingulate gyrus. All

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JEN MAY


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CONTRIBUTORS

ANNAH-LAURENBLOOMis a seventeen-year-old

FIONABENSON -

lection, Bright Travellers

ALYSE BURNSIDE

DOLLFEEDER.

ANGELADALINGER

angela-dalinger.jimdo.com

CHARLOTTEDRURYis an artist based in Oakland.

charlottendrury.tumblr.com

REBEKAH FRUMKIN McSweeneys

and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She

MIN K KANG

published inAsia Literary Review, TENDERLOIN

and Where Are You From?: An Anthology of Asian

American Writing The Diary of

a K-Drama Villain

NOELLEKOCOT and The Raving

Fortune -

LINDAKUNHARDTs poems have appeared in theNew Yorker, Poetry,APR,New Lettersand

Poetry Daily

she teaches French at Sant Bani School in

Corrections in Laconia.

KLARA LINDAHL

MOLLY MATALON

JEN MAY is an artist living in Brooklyn. She -

The Rumpus

Ohio Edit. You can

jenjmay.tumblr.com

CAROLINE PICARD is a Chicago-based artist,

published previously in The Bicycle Review and

Projecttile The Chronicles

of Fortune

Comics.

ROSEROBBINS is an illustrator based in Bristol.She is starting a blog about autism and the arts,

VICKI SHER

EDENVEAUDRYis a visual artist based in

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