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issue 41: Resilience

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Greetings, readers, and welcome to issue 41 of carte blanche! I am substituting for Greg Santos, the Editor-in-Chief of carte blanche, for this issue—we and the whole masthead are so proud of the pieces we are publishing this month. The theme for issue 41 is “Resilience,” a topic that has been on many of our minds for the past year.

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issue 41 (search by genre)
  • comics
  • fiction
  • non-fiction
  • photography
  • poetry
  • translation
Three Poems From My Epic
Three Poems From My Epic

Translated by Alex Niemi from Vincent Tholomé

I revel for three days in shaggy fur
I stink a beast and a bug
a cow tail whips my brow

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The Cloud Shoveller
The Cloud Shoveller

Translated by Louise Hinton from Simon Boulerice

Elliot loved clouds. He loved them all.

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Two Poems
Two Poems

by Marcy Rae Henry

you ask: how many pictures will we take
before it’s time to give up the bra

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A JC cento, or why does silence become a shard?
A JC cento, or why does silence become a shard?

by E. Hiroko Isomura

i’ve been tracing the shape of my lifeline through livestock-stalls and mud, grown foreign and faded.

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An Eternity of Cupcakes
An Eternity of Cupcakes

by Rachel Lee

We have conversations no one remembers. Some months later, I break up with my boyfriend.

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MC
MC

by Gabby Vachon

Defiance, but smells no different to the line of cattle
in the drive through

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Ei Yesiw Awasis (Thunder Child)
Ei Yesiw Awasis (Thunder Child)

by Sarrain Soonias

im gonna kill him
people need to get to the creek where the adventure happened

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An Interzone (Chapter One)
An Interzone (Chapter One)

by Nicholas Karavatos

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Mushrooms
Mushrooms

by Willy Conley

They say that mushrooms and fungi are resilient organisms, highly resistant to stress. They have a fleshy resistance and can sprout overnight.

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Komorebi
Komorebi

by Alexandra Tamiko Da Dalt

“How did you get here?” he asked, his face bemused but lined with confusion. “I walked,” I said, performing a caricature of walking.

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Float
Float

by Sophie Elan

You step over rocks that shift your ankles precariously. Sliding on a strip of beached bull kelp, you see them.

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A Great Artist Has Passed
A Great Artist Has Passed

by Fawn Parker

Hypothetically baby I’m talking in the ultimate rights and the wrongs of things. Yeah I’m leeching. Yeah I’m the one who’s squirreling. I’m poaching.

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Tricks
Tricks

by Noa Padawer-Blatt

It makes the crowd joyous and the magician proud. He must commit to the trick until it becomes real to him, too.

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Husbands of Lake Joseph
Husbands of Lake Joseph

by Brooke Lockyer

Not everyone on Lake Joseph is a husband or a wife. Elise, a retired high school art teacher, spends her days alone, painting male portraits on her verandah in the early morning light.

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If The Word Tastes Like Bourbon
If The Word Tastes Like Bourbon

by Brandon Kashani

At night, Richard and Harriet would sip white wine over microwave dinners. The make and vintage never really mattered, as long as it was as cold as possible.

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Bring Her Back
Bring Her Back

by Joanne Gormley

I ring ten times before letting myself in with the key she gave me. My sister Beatrice is in her bedroom standing at her full length mirror wearing a long black evening dress.

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New Garden
New Garden

by Jessi Eoin
A comic strip on coming to terms with chronic illness.

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Married Myself
Married Myself

by Mugabi Byenkya

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