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What Happened Was Impossible

in the sense that these things can’t happen, like you opened a chest and greek goddesses flew out and what they did How many? at least six. The greek goddesses, what they did is, they were hungry having been in a trunk A wood trunk? wooden, yes, it was cedar and the first thing they […]

Editor-noteS Issue #39

39 interior.indd 1 2/16/22 6:00 PM ••• iii February 11, 2022 Dear readers, Fence is made for you. If this is the first literary magazine you are holding in your hands, and especially if you do not identify as a writer, we know you are there, looking for something other than whatever is currently being […]

A Call for Writing by Professional Nurses

An enormous thank you to Sarah Hope Kagan, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA, AOCN, GCNS-BC.University of Pennsylvania Professor of Gerontological Nursing. Lucy Walker Term Professor, Abramson Cancer Center at Pennsylvania Hospital. With Sarah generously volunteering to reach out to her vast network of fellow nurses, Fence was able to circulate the below letter soliciting writing from […]

Splitting Fire

Traffic is a bully on 94w, and it’s a relief to exit at the Johnson’s Creek Outlets. Jefferson is still ten plus miles away, and just like Whitewater, where I grew up, but also just like the moon. Flat asphalt right into the sun. The road curves at the foot of the granary. To submit […]

The Longer It Drags on, the Less It’s about You

Photo of interior spread of A Flag of No Nation, Jewish Currents Press, 2019 In 2012 I was new to New York and moving around temporary sublets in Greenpoint, using my lack of a lease as an excuse to meet people. Tom Haviv was one of those people. We never actually lived together, but he showed […]

Rasputin

i may have a hog body but at least i’m a strong-willed pig [ !!!! ] | if u see someone w/ the exact same face kill them | for instance kirsten dunst | lube via lather—intimacy via stand-in—ice floe via polar bears | contused—confused [ ???? ]—how odd to see on the street—blossoming w/ […]