A Name We Didn’t Like Autumn Gonzales __________ The fairy looked into the baby’s throat, sighing sulkily. “I don’t wish to touch this one. You will have to trade me a favor for its removal.” The parents looked between themselves, confusion clear on their faces. “No one else has to…
Read MoreFable of Ice Wendy BooydeGraaff __________ She emerged out of her Far North hibernation, where the Arctic ice had accelerated in its melting, drowning polar bears, starving walruses, sterilizing ivory gulls, cooking thick-billed murres. She was not Santa’s wife, not an elf, not a reincarnated ice beast. She crawled out…
Read MoreOtherWorlds, September ’26 Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson Managing Editor: Tyler Campbell Associate Editor: Dusti RW Levy and Stephanie Smith Assistant Editors: Madeline Ricard, Chelsey Wright, Joel Lema, and Kathrine Winter Interns: Nick LaRocca Basak Devrim Andreutti, “Dreaming,” oil on wood Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson Letter from…
Read MoreVignettes: A Literary Photo Album, July ’26 Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson Guest/Outgoing Managing Editor: Taryn White Incoming Managing Editor: Tyler Campbell Vishaal Pathak, “That Afternoon in Daman,” photograph Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson Letter from the Guest Editor by Taryn White Fiction “Olives” by Lori Sambol Brody…
Read MoreTyler Campbell is a dual MA/MFA candidate at McNeese State University. He has previously received an MA from Auburn University at Montgomery. His writing has been published in Lunara Nether, an online speculative fiction magazine. In his free time he likes to play tabletop games and watch horror movies with…
Read MoreLetter from the Editor Vallie Lynn Watson __________ I was extraordinarily ill early last fall (with what turned out to be a fairly pedestrian bum gallbladder) and was in the hospital most of the semester, unable to teach, unable to make sense of words on a page or on a…
Read MoreSoundscape Daniel Webre __________ Ted was no more interested in the sound of his own voice than construction noise or babies crying. So when Eleanor suggested recording him for posterity’s sake, he was literally dumbstruck, unable to utter more than a faint croak. To his dismay, Eleanor was not the…
Read MoreChanging Robert Weissenberg __________ __________ Robert Christopher Weissenberg is a writer and artist who resides in Central Texas. You can find him online as @robertchristopher77. __________ << Back To learn more about submitting your work to Boudin or applying to McNeese State University’s Creative Writing MFA program, please visit Submissions…
Read MoreOrgans of Memory María DeGuzmán __________ __________ María DeGuzmán is a scholar, photographer, writer, and music composer. Her photographic work has been exhibited at The Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, MA, USA), Watershed Media Centre (Bristol, England), and Golden Belt Studios (Durham, NC, USA). She has published photography in, among…
Read MoreRoger Camp __________ Resting on the Ponte Vecchio, Florence __________ The Siesta, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil __________ Roger Camp is the author of three photography books including the award winning Butterflies in Flight, Thames & Hudson, 2002. His documentary photography has been awarded the Europe’s prestigious Leica Medal of Excellence…
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