The long lost first issue of Euphemism is finally online for your reading enjoyment.
Untitledby Brian Dongarra
.because goats are nice and goats are cruel.
Death Mask by Kate Dusenbery
I realized I was suspended upside-down above a toilet
Rolls Along Again by Sean Hackney
lowlessness; not low in the sense most see it
Father Easing In by Sean Hackney
frazzled from the journey home: disregarding the field he had trampled through gazing
Ode to an Aneurysm by Chris Howard
What have you done forever to blow your thoughts backward through cerebrum and red hair
It's Just the WInd by Lauren Myers
Smooth, slender-sliding tendrils slipping through-in throughout
Hummingbird by Karlee Parker
I had this still memory and I couldn't hear you humming,
Living Behind a Pane of Glass by David Roy
Edmund Ankur sat in the corner of his bedroom, his royal purple comforter draped over his shoulders, keeping him warm.
Two monsters in our nightmares, standing in the dark driveway by Kyle Scott
Sun do that nose-dive. A brief passing of joggers between alleys exhausting steam from lungs
One time my father whooped my grandfather's ass in the kitchen by Kyle Scott
Sing lullabies and love tunes to landfills.
Untitled by Sam Stuckey
I want to open up the underside of all animals. The piles of muck and guts
It's Alright If I Tell You by Adam S. Wykes
Like a folding chair Take me off the rack U n f o l d me
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