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Helena Van Brande

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Five Poems, Conjunctions:73

Biography

Helena Van Brande graduated from Princeton University with a degree in comparative literature and minors in creative writing and environmental studies. In addition to translating, she writes poetry and nonfiction, and recently made her literary debut with the publication of her poem “No bedtime story” in Tiny Seed Literary Journal. She currently lives in Lakeview, Oregon.

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Conjunctions:83

Revenants, The Ghost Issue

Fall 2024
Coedited by Joyce Carol Oates and Bradford Morrow

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Fredo and the Rain Club

by Jonathan Carroll

November 20, 2024

As a big surprise for her birthday, I gave in and bought the dog she’d been wanting for a long time. A frisky little caramel-colored dachshund she immediately named Fredo after the weak Corleone brother in The Godfather, her favorite movie. I thought it an odd name but it was her choice and her dog.

The Family Night Watchman

Translated from Chinese by Deanna Ren

by Can Xue

November 13, 2024

In the South, on the nights of a sweltering summer, we children like to sleep in the middle of the road. No cars pass by overnight; everyone plops their water-cooled bamboo beds outside, and the moment of excitement arrives. Ah, the corpse drivers! Ah, the Spider Demon King! Ah, the Milky Way!

Drive

by Brian Evenson

November 6, 2024

His body had been in the trunk some hours already when she began to feel him next to her in the cab as well. She couldn’t see him at first, could only sense he was there. But soon the hair on her right arm stood up and the air beside her began to shimmer. Before she began to see him fully, she whipped her gaze away.