Vignettes: 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 and research focus around speculative fiction that is typically centered around life and the human experience. In his free time he likes to play tabletop games…
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…
Read MoreEggs Melissa Zamora __________ Fluorescents hum. The dairy case throws damp cold from its open mouth. It settles in the hollow under her throat. List in hand, columns penciled in her handwriting, every category checked but this one. Same categories. Different week. She is at the eggs. Large is easy.…
Read MoreAll Summer Claudia Smith __________ End of May Either the postcard-bright sting of chlorine in an emptied pool, scrubbed after the bodies were found, or the sour-sweet algae of early summer at a motel with window units. Or could be the mosquitoes through the cracked window with no screen, or…
Read MoreMusic Camp, 1978 Marybeth Rua-Larsen __________ Behind the concert hall, after dusk, the moon oozed through an elm’s branches like an egg yolk, not solid, not liquid, quivering. His arms around my waist, then feathered to my backside as he pulled me in. Let’s dance, he said, to no music…
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