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Volume Thirteen, 2026

The newest issue of CLOCKHOUSE, published in August 2026, features new work from established and emerging writers around the world, including poetry from Marge Piercy and Bruce Cohen, prose from A.L. Gordon, a one-act play from Aleks Merilo, and fiction from Sali Andiamo Siyaya.

Enjoy reading a few selections online and order your copy below!
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Contents

A Note from the Editorial Director
​Two to One by David Waite
Creative Nonfiction
seastar & hyacinthia 
by Sarah Butkovic
Try Not to Obsess by Michael Cannistraci
El Jem by Lindsey Clark
Three Urns by A.L. Gordon
The Phases of My Mother’s Moon by Jane McCauley
Augsburger Ballantine Colt 45 by Lucy Turner
Presence: The Photograph That Holds by LisaMary Wichowski-Hill
Drama
Green Thumb 
by Kayla Cagan
The Day Sophocles Died by Matt Herman
TEOTWAWKI by Aleks Merilo
Fiction
Dislocation 
by Leah Browning
The Rotation by Timothy Collyer
Low-Carb Lifestyle by Dinah Cox
Rage and Fresh Lemon Scent Devour Our Family by Patricia Flaherty Pagan
Long Summer with Man on Stilts by Stacey C. Johnson
The Mirror by Marlene Olin
Mama’s Sacred Tree by Sali Andiamo Siyaya
Poetry
​Every Phone Booth a Wind Phone, Every Window a Portal 
by ​Amy Jean Bailey
Whatever Reverie by Brasswax
The Light Inside the Refrigerator and White Out by Bruce Cohen
Duplex with Slime Mold by Brittney Corrigan
Essie’s Famous O Rings by Memory Derthick
Proxy Season by Megan Duffy
Hemorrhaging by Brian Johnson​
the self as the ship of theseus by Abbie Langmead
Tonight, the Cicadas Value Silence: A Poem for Patricia Lois Clifton by Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton
I Wasn’t a Punk, I Was an Apple Peach by Maren Logan
Once in a Moroccan National Forest by Richard Newman
Fermentation by Ashley Parker Owens
​Something from almost nothing, Basket on my arm, and No longer empty by Marge Piercy
something beautiful there. by Madeline Schaeffer
And so I took a picture by Tanner Stening
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