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Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
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Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of three collections of short fiction, most recently What We Do with the Wreckage (UGA), which won the 2017 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her debut novel, Elita (TriQuarterly/Northwestern University), comes out in January of 2025. Kirsten's short fiction has been widely published in journals, including McSweeney’s, One Story, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and others. She has been the recipient of a PEN/O. Henry Prize. Kirsten teaches middle school in Seattle and lives with her family near the shore of Puget Sound. More of her work can be found at www.kirstensundberglunstrum.com.

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Vol. 82
Conjunctions:82
Works & Days
Spring 2024
Bradford Morrow

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Wind Phone
by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
October 23, 2024
People like to believe they have influence over disasters, catastrophes, losses—by which they mean control—but that’s illusion, and she was done with illusion. Could she write that in her report? You’re all suffering under an illusion. Instead, she picked up the phone and texted: Island//illusion. Illusion//island. They sound the same when you say them enough. There’s a word for that, but I can’t remember it now. I can’t remember anything clearly. All my words are inverted and mirrored. edrorrim. See?
Three Conversations with the Apparition of Vallejo
by James McCorkle
October 16, 2024
Last night I was certain
pppyou were there with a gift
light balanced against shadow

fugitives move along fence lines
cities burningppp
we’re asked to send money
cities burn
where are the plans
there were no bells, no sirens, no warningpppthe cities burned
 
Nine Poems
by Delilah Silberman
October 9, 2024
Flattened stone floor, covered
in wooden slats, the portico
with columns and even arches,
not exactly the porch
the other house (our same floor
plan doubled into something else)
had across our common grass.