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Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag. Issue 8. Spring 2023.
Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag. Issue 8. Spring 2023.
Issue 8
Spring 2023
Molecule
Spring 2023
Issue 8
Cover Art
“ELEPHANTS IN THE MIST” BY SHERRY MORRIS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Art
Prose
AUDREY ALT KEITH HOERNER
Discounted / 7 Using Your Noodle
DONNA BARTLETT (or Not) / 14
Anecdote / 8 IZABELA ILOWSKA
SARAH BERLETTI Insomnia / 15
[untitled] / 9 VAISHNAVI PUSAPATI
EOIN CARNEY [untitled] / 16
apokatastasis / 10 BILL TEITELBAUM
ERIN DIONNE Punch Me 50¢ / 17
Date Night / 11 STAN WERSE
TIMOTHY GAGER Book Club / 18
Arpeggio / 12
Interview
JOANNA CASTLE MILLER
Interview with Actor K Callan / 20
Reviews
MAE FRASER
Review of All Things Are Born To Change Their Shapes
by Jennifer Martelli / 21
JANUARY GILL O’NEIL
Review of Prize Wheel by Colleen Michaels / 22
Drama
PAUL DILELLA TOM MISURACA
Let Me In / 24 Rally / 26
GIANFRANCO LENTINI STEVEN PREVETT
Self-Published / 25 Cat Talk / 27
STAN WERSE
Wisdom / 28
Poetry
MATTHEW J. ANDREWS SVEA BARRETT
Hotel Room / 30 Shedding / 34
GLEN ARMSTRONG JODI BOSIN
Americana / 31 4–27–2020 / 36
PRISCILLA ATKINS ANNA BRANCATO
The Chair / 32 Fashion / 37
JAVY AWAN KEVIN BROCCOLI
Headache / 33 Breakroom Blues / 38
Poetry (contd)
OLIVER BROOKS DEBORAH LEIPZIGER
Night Terrors / 39 When I was a butterfly / 53
EOIN CARNEY JANE C. MILLER
Terminal / 40 What Cocooned
AIMEE CHAMPAGNE Inside Her / 55
Bite / 41 JONATHAN ODELL
BETSEY CULLEN Estate Sale / 56
Postpartum / 43 CHAD PARENTEAU
MARK DECARTERET Stats Show / 57
Nana on Meditation / 44 JAY PAWLYK
RG EVANS Zombie Fatigue / 59
Mantra / 45 JOYCE PESEROFF
HUGH FINDLAY Binary / 60
God Poem / 46 JASON CRAIG POOLE
GREGORY GLENN First Aid / 63
Calliope / 47 STELLA VINITCHI
JOEY GOULD RADULESCU
guide for the perplexed / 49 the woodpecker the brain &
MARY BETH HINES how to bury your friend / 64
I Joined Twitter / 50 GERARD SARNAT
DANIEL HUDON My only proper clothes / 65
Fermat’s Last Poem / 51 STEPHANIE NÍ
OLIVER KLEYER THIARNAIGH
Self-Portrait as a Tea Negroni / 66
Drinker / 52 DAVID EARL WILLIAMS
Purgatory / 67
CONTRIBUTORS / 69
SANDRA HOPKINS
Discounted
P ROSE 7
DONNA BARTLETT
Anecdote
P ROSE 8
SARAH BERLETTI
P ROSE 9
EOIN CARNEY
apokatastasis
P ROSE 10
ERIN DIONNE
Date Night
P ROSE 11
TIMOTHY GAGER
Arpeggio
P ROSE 12
SANDRA HOPKINS
Cut it out
KEITH HOERNER
P ROSE 14
IZABELA ILOWSKA
Insomnia
P ROSE 15
VAISHNAVI PUSAPATI
P ROSE 16
BILL TEITELBAUM
Punch Me 50¢
P ROSE 17
STAN WERSE
Book Club
P ROSE 18
SANDRA HOPKINS
So what?
JOANNA CASTLE MILLER
Favorite role?
Lois & Clark
Artistic inspiration?
Betty Grable, Spencer Tracy.
Creative advice?
Nothing succeeds like persistence.
I NTERVI EW 20
MAE FRASER
R EVI EW 21
JANUARY GILL O’NEIL
R EVI EW 22
THOMAS KIENZLE
Horsefly Eyes
PAUL DILELLA
Let Me In
CONNIE
Alexa, let me in.
ALEXA
Enter code.
CONNIE
Keypad malfunctioning.
ALEXA
Security question: how many angels fit on the head of
a pin?
CONNIE
“Infinity.” Now, let me in.
ALEXA
No voice recognition.
CONNIE
I have a cold.
ALEXA
Calling 911.
D RAMA 24
GIANFRANCO LENTINI
Self-Published
D RAMA 25
TOM MISURACA
Rally
“What do we want?”
“We don’t know!”
“When do we want it?”
“We’re not sure!”
“Who’re we going to blame?”
“Everybody else!”
“What’re we going to do about it?”
“Nothing!”
“Why’re we here?”
“No clue!”
“How’d we get here?”
“We followed you.”
D RAMA 26
STEVEN PREVETT
Cat Talk
SARAH
(Six and a half)
Did you know you’re a feline, but you’re also a
mammal?
ADDIE
(staring at Sarah)
SARAH
And I’m human, but I’m a mammal, too?
ADDIE
(Continues staring)
SARAH
Don’t you get it? We’re basically related!
ADDIE
(slow blinks)
D RAMA 27
STAN WERSE
Wisdom
DAD
Its time we had a talk.
SON
Sure.
DAD
If someone tells you to shut your damn pie hole, it
means they want you to be quiet. So, don’t count on
them giving you any pie.
(beat)
Learned that one the hard way.
SON
Good talk, Dad.
D RAMA 28
DANUTA E. KOSK-KOSICKA
Rich Eggs
MATTHEW J. ANDREWS
Hotel Room
P OETRY 30
GLEN ARMSTRONG
Americana
P OETRY 31
PRISCILLA ATKINS
The Chair
Is it just me,
or has the entire town
become one giant
expanse of Adirondacks.
P OETRY 32
JAVY AWAN
Headache
P OETRY 33
SVEA BARRETT
Shedding
My father’s old
cat casts off hair
in half moons
on Dad’s dark pants.
sleeps twisted in
blue blankets like
the Rose of Sharon
blossoms that roll
down his driveway.
P OETRY 34
DANUTA E. KOSK-KOSICKA
Magnolia
JODI BOSIN
4–27–2020
P OETRY 36
ANNA BRANCATO
Fashion
If I were a mouse
I think I would like to wear
a spaghetti noodle as a scarf.
P OETRY 37
KEVIN BROCCOLI
Breakroom Blues
Cheyenne is telling me
All about her birthday cake
I do the crossword
stuck on the author
Of Das Kapital
Nobody knows
Whose job it is
P OETRY 38
OLIVER BROOKS
Night Terrors
P OETRY 39
EOIN CARNEY
Terminal
P OETRY 40
AIMEE CHAMPAGNE
Bite
P OETRY 41
SHERRY MORRIS
Postpartum
near perfection
ten fingers ten toes
still
mine
to keen
to cradle
into darkness
to pump breasts
engorged
with sour milk
P OETRY 43
MARK DECARTERET
Nana on Meditation
P OETRY 44
RG EVANS
Mantra
Love
is merely
grief
P OETRY 45
HUGH FINDLAY
God Poem
God appeared to me
in the bathtub
and offered to scrub my back.
But I said no,
when I want your help
I’ll pay for it.
P OETRY 46
GREGORY GLENN
Calliope
P OETRY 47
SHERRY MORRIS
flimsy antithesis,
this mighty whimsy.
P OETRY 49
MARY BETH HINES
I Joined Twitter
P OETRY 50
DANIEL HUDON
P OETRY 51
OLIVER KLEYER
P OETRY 52
DEBORAH LEIPZIGER
I layered
with thousands
of morphos
creating blue trees.
The trees had wings.
P OETRY 53
SHELDON POLSKY
Robin Matchbook
JANE C. MILLER
a field of sunflowers
tall as people she walked among—
P OETRY 55
JONATHAN ODELL
Estate Sale
P OETRY 56
CHAD PARENTEAU
Stats Show
People with
nothing
to live for
live longer,
get up
early,
make no
thing better,
stand first in
every line,
come back
happy, empty,
P OETRY 57
make mom
proud in way
she can’t
remember.
P OETRY 58
JAY PAWLYK
Zombie Fatigue
P OETRY 59
JOYCE PESEROFF
Binary
You can’t be
mildly pregnant
or a bit dead.
Voted on
or off the island,
you’re canceled
or renewed.
Test positive
or negative,
code 0 or 1.
The secret’s safe
or not a secret. Today
P OETRY 60
ends at midnight.
Act like there’s
no tomorrow
P OETRY 61
SHELDON POLSKY
First Aid
P OETRY 63
STELLA VINITCHI RADULESCU
P OETRY 64
GERARD SARNAT
From there
For Gerry
Veryvery
Fast
P OETRY 65
STEPHANIE NÍ THIARNAIGH
Negroni
Campari, Vermouth
and Mother’s Ruin. A
single ice cube floats
to the top and I use my
index finger to submerge
all my sorrows under
frozen water hoping they
will go peacefully in their
hypoxia. I clutch the tiny
straw for dear life.
P OETRY 66
DAVID EARL WILLIAMS
Purgatory
P OETRY 67
YUEXI WU
C ONTRI BUTORS 69
CONTRIBUTORS
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