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That Kind of Place

Genre cover by James Diaz

Collage of cut-out images showing a yellow house with a clock, a dark building with a water tower marked 'EITEN USA', a church steeple, a rocky formation, and a person sitting on the ground with a dog and a woman standing outside a vehicle. There is text at the bottom reading 'north of Eden raw and gone. We be bearing blood bearing weight the world on hold that kind of place'.

Busted Up and Pure as Winter Light

A photo of a small red building with a porch and multiple windows, with a woman standing outside. In the background, there are tall buildings and a neon sign on the roof that reads 'TOWER CAFE' with a lighthouse design. There is also a sign for 'LEWISOHN TIRES' on a white garage door. Below the image, a typewritten quote reads: 'All you can do is arrive, bust-up and pure as winter light that burns on all sides.'

Issue cover by James Diaz

James Diaz is the author of This Someone I Call Stranger (Indolent Books, 2018) All Things Beautiful Are Bent (Alien Buddha, 2021) and Motel Prayers (Alien Buddha, 2022) as well as the founding editor of Anti-Heroin Chic. Their most recent work can be found in Rust + Moth, Sugar House Review, Chaotic Merge Magazine and Thrush Poetry Journal.