Pangyrus Literary Magazine

Boston-based literary magazine publishing short stories, poetry, essays, science writing, food writing, comics, reviews, and memoir.

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From "Our Town Becomes a Number" by Alice Haines, published alongside "March Mud Season Rap":

"8 fell while rolling 14-pound balls at 10
white pins. The deaf still weep for 4,
who were tossing 6-inch bags through
6-inch holes...."

Ph: Sean Foster, unsplash, CC 2.0.

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New short story "Friedman at the Reins" by Mathew Goldberg:

"'Pain comes in the dark,' his mother would say. 'It comes in the dark and we call it wisdom, but it is pain.' As a child, he imagined that his mother’s black bile allowed her to walk through walls."

Ph:Sander Crombach

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From the essay "Backtalk" by Anne Kenner:

“You have a condition,” my father said when I called to complain. “You need to rest.”

“Dad,” I explained, “I have school.”

“What you have,” he answered, “is a scoliosis.”

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Ph: Pawel Czerwinski, unsplash, CC 2.0.

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From the poem "In Lieu of Flowers" by Harry Gordon:

"Why attend your ex-wife’s funeral
when the in-laws will only glare at you
as if you’d killed her instead of the Winstons?
I quit smoking about the time the fire..."

Ph: Mayron Oliveira, unsplash, CC 2.0.

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"Ruth" by Donnie Moreland, published alongside "Cigna":

"Baby Ruth
Sweet Ruth, girl where did you go
New York bound from the sleepy, Carolina magnolia’s that spare petals like angel wings when you need to make a decision
where to land
by and by..."

Ph: Steve Johnson on pexels.

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From the poem "Debt Portfolio" by Jana-Lee Germaine:

"John Louis slipped me cash
every month, enough to pay

some bills and start a separate
bank account. You tight?

he’d ask, bumping a stack
of brand-new twenties

across his pickup’s leather seat..."

Ph: Ryan Porter, unsplash

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From our newest column Voices in the Classroom by columnist Marium Zahra, "Addressing the Mental Health Crisis":

"At first it sounded like a clear win: Two extra weeks of spring break in the second semester of my 6th-grade year? Amazing...."

Ph: Andrew Neel, Unsplash, CC 2.0.

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New fiction story "The Puma Way" by Susan Fox:

For the past few months Brian has been on a journey, a quest, a search; whatever it is, Gennie doesn’t get it. “Don’t go all Zen on me,” she said to him one evening, laughing to try to make light of it.

Ph: Jerm Gonzalo on pexels

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New poem "Where Are You From?" by Tran Tran:

"In my mother tongue, to miss
sounds the same as to remember.

I dare not ask my mother,
Mẹ nhớ ngoại không? To miss
what was means to remember

what wasn’t...."

Ph: Johannes Plenio, pexels, CC 2.0.
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From the poem "A Gutting" by Navila Nahid:

"Womb slabs
a surgical tray

and my heart—
a ship

of Thesus
ripples

outside its body...."

Read the full poem on https://t.co/q9KVxFet6r

Ph: Pawel Czerwinski, unsplash, CC 2.0.

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New poem "Articulation" by Kevin McLellan:

"paid extra
for the jade

tree in terra

cotta with
a blanket

of stones

because
as a child:..."

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Ph: Alexander Grey, unsplash, CC 2.0.

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From "fallen angels in the west branch narraguagus" by Suzanne S. Rancourt:

"translucent dream or memory – aquarium glass
she slid snug against its chilled pane
eased osmotically through a viscous veil."

Ph: Nikunj Singh, unsplash, CC 2.0.

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From "sticky on the C train" by Eris Sker:

"into the park and out the bowels
in a single drooping summer eve–swallow wordings & all worldly light! –
whose yells are timely interruptions of each phoneme
yell fuse! intent! manifestation! coda!"

Ph: Harry Gillen, unsplash, CC 2.0.

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New fiction piece "Editors in Chief" by Angela Townsend:

"Mrs. Fehr liked me, which led to the unprecedented. 'Then I’ll compromise.'

'Really?'

'Yes. I just need you to do one thing.'

'Okay.'

'Dumb it down.'"

Ph: Felipe Furtado, unsplash, CC 2.0.

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From "The Unevacuated" by George Witte:

"It’s over anyway so fuck it, right?
I mean, who cares about bromeliads,
or dace, or honeybees beset by mites
when apex predators are dropping dead
like flies from recontaminated air...."

Ph: Ricardo Gomez Angel, unsplash, CC 2.0.

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"American Sonnet: Sometimes, Overseas" by Joanna Grant:

"An unmarried Western woman, working overseas—
I often get asked, 'Where is your husband?'
'How many babies?' After explaining
never had any babies, not really likely to now..."

Ph: Brandon Day, unsplash, CC 2.0.

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From "extinct: Nesopupa turtoni" by Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton:

"with no one to praise
your punctuality, you sleep in
the world lets you
go, scrawls a note
resumes its conference call"

Read the full poem on https://t.co/0Lds1XgmjB

Image: Buddha Elemental 3D on unsplash, CC 2.0.

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New poem "Proof by Contradiction" by Ali MacLeod:

"You, though —
You could show up first to every party;
You could arrive to work at 4 AM.
You could sit down for Christmas dinner on Halloween and still..."

Image: Ir Solyanaya on pexels, CC 2.0.
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From the memoir "Telling Secrets" by Bethany Wiersma:

Dad is sitting on the steps behind her — he’s already rehearsed his role. He does a lot of nodding and clasping his hands, and sometimes he chirps out a shaky, “we love you very much.”

Ph: Polina Tankilevitch, pexels, CC 2.0

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Poem "Undine Rising From The Waters" by Kelle Groom, published alonside poem "Lyonia":

It’s said she needs a man, to marry,
To have a soul, but what a load
Of crap–she’s an element a water
Spirit which means soul in fact
She is soul...

Ph: James Gaither, flickr CC 2.0