Category: Submitted Material
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COVER ART: In Parentheses Literary Magazine: October 2013 (Volume 2 Issue 2)
The cover of the upcoming issue of In Parentheses is ‘Delay’ by Magda Dudziak. Issue available October 1, 2013. For more work by her, as well as other great artists and writers, be sure to get a copy when it comes out! Download past issues of IP for free here.
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A Need for Shelter – by Audie Jinks
A Need for Shelter by Audrey Johnson “She says it’s not abuse because there’s no bruises, you know, because she doesn’t actually hit me. She just—” Owen twists a hand through the humid air in an arc, a weak summary of the terror his wife causes. Cicadas sing in the vines and brush that surround…
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The American Slave Craze and other work by Kamden Hilliard
Kamden Hilliard is studying creative writing, psychology, and education at Sarah Lawrence College. He is an older and younger brother. When he is not brother-ing he is a YoungArts level one winner in writing, a 2012 Davidson Laureate in Literature, and an avid hiker. In short, he tries to keep busy. Kamden is a poetry…
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Counterstrike and other poems by William Ogden Haynes
Counter Strike If we had chosen a dark granite, the whole episode might have gone unnoticed,
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Serious Question (If I Had a Heart) by Carmen Guzmán
Carmen Guzmán is a writer from Puerto Rico living in Boston. By day: a Boston University alumnae of the film and television program who blogs and shoots videos for a non-profit. By night:an expediter at a restaurant in Cambridge who enjoys a good whiskey. In her head: another story. How Many Cups Of Coffee Does…
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“Stay Awhile, Mephistopheles” by Jessica Van de Kemp
Stay Awhile, Mephistopheles by Jessica Van de Kemp He is a man without a moniker, a polyhistor, an artist of experience. To him, the world is all colour and smell, music and light. The ceilings of his memory are vaulted and there are Florentine frescoes if you like.
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Hannah Lejter “Infatuation=Alienation”
planes my body is here but my soul is on a plane out of here. i look down at white sands and imagine i’m flying over clouds. i turn away from the sun so the wings of my arms won’t burn. the seatbelt sign is always on. my lover wears no seatbelt. he’s on no…
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Meanwhile Two Hours South of Kabul in a Town called Khoshi
Mustafa Sidiqee is just a normal person with a camera trying to capture ‘the moment’. He wants to share with the rest of the world the experiences of love and happiness that he sees through his eyes. He has been in the most dangerous of situations while trying to share parts of his life-story from his…
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El Dorado and Other Poems by Jim Davis
JIM DAVIS is a graduate of Knox College and an MFA candidate at Northwestern University. Jim lives, writes, and paints in Chicago, where he reads for TriQuarterly and edits the North Chicago Review. His work has appeared in Seneca Review, Adroit Journal, Sheepshead Review, New Plains Review, Whitefish Review, The Café Review, and Contemporary American…
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AIDS: A Love Story (Hannah B. Ragland)
Hannah Beth Ragland is an aspiring artist, writer, and designer. She is currently studying creative writing at Florida State University, working odd jobs, and running an etsy shop. She collects old books and houseplants. AIDS: A Love Story We were sick, and we were in love. That was how it was supposed to be –…
