Volume 9 Number 2

Queens Zoo

At the Queens Zoo, the boy leans against exhibit glass. Inside, elephants: their tusks adzed and planed, the color of snow at Croton- on-Hudson, their…

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Pupil

Vampire eyes, she said. This photograph of you has no pupils, and mine are dilated from sleep. Your friend took it over breakfast, across our…

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syllable knots & milkweed—

In full sun ginger will roll up: crinkles might be the word for leaf movement. Everything around it curled & hot—. What I’m saying is…

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Of Felling

There used to be a tree, a giant red oak arching over the court- yard outside our apartment. In May, when the city came to…

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“Letter from the Editor: The Queer Issue”

This issue of NANO Fiction has it all. We start with Stephanie Devine’s “Of Felling,” winner of the 2015 NANO Prize, selected by the wonderful…

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