Eckleburg No. 18

Eckleburg is a literary and arts journal publishing original works from both emerging and awarded writers, poets, artists and musicians including Roxane Gay, Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Stephen Dixon, Moira Egan and David Wagoner.

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Eckleburg 18 Contributors

Cover Art by CHAS SCHROEDER

FICTION

You’re an Ugly Crier, MEGAN GIDDINGS

from His Wife Leaves Him, STEPHEN DIXON

The Sky Too, VALLIE LYNN WATSON

The Nonsense Singers of the Red Forest, RICK MOODY

Bomb Squad, JASON OLSEN

A Diverse Flora of Native and Introduced Species, Beautifully Adapted to Their Microenvironment, DON HUCKS

Fourteen, STEVE ALMOND

Job History, ANDREW ROE

Maps, WESTON CUTTER

Permanent, MARJORIE MADDOX

Saver’s Delight, CARALYN DAVIS

Smoke, CHAD SIMPSON

Emails from the Staybridge Suites Anaheim, SUZANNE MARIE HOPCROFT

Thieves, LEN KUNTZ

Whale Skull, MATT FERNER

GERTRUDE STEIN AWARD IN FICTION

1ST PLACE | Salvage, JILL BIRDSALL

2ND PLACE | In Defense of the Body, MICHAEL SHOU-YUNG SHUM

3RD PLACE | Hello My New Friend, I Hope, BIRD MARATHE

POETRY

Common, NICHOLAS YB WONG

Portrait d’Erik Satie, MOIRA EGAN

After Being Asked to Write a Villanelle, DAVID WAGONER

Contolled Hallucinations, JOHNS SIBLEY WILLIAMS

What I Imagine the Man Wearing the Neon Green Lacoste Polo Hitting on

the Blonde with the Halter Top Would Be Saying If He Were an Intellectual, JESSE DAMIANI

Of Brains Or Bowels Or Lungs, Leopards, Finches, NATHAN BLAKE

Red Market, LINDSAY LUSBY

To Adam, BILLIE TADROS

Women and Children First, LINDSAY LUSBY

ESSAY

from Something Wrong with Her: A Hybrid Memoir, CRIS MAZZA

CENTERFOLD Storytelling & Spanking, STEVE ALMOND

TRANSLATIONS

TRANS. NICHOLAS YB WONG

The Women Who Watch, TRANS. EDWARD GAUVIN

GALLERY

B. J. LLOYD

CHAS SCHROEDER | Nearby Balconies

JACOB OET

OGUN AFARIOGUN

MORGAN ELLIOT

LEX | Ink

GROOVE

Consumption Work, THE SIZE QUEENS

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The Editors

Eckleburg was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. Our aesthetic is eclectic, literary mainstream to experimental. We appreciate fusion forms including magical realist, surrealist, meta- realist and realist works with an offbeat spin. We value character-focused storytelling and language and welcome both edge and mainstream with punch aesthetics. We like humor that explores the gritty realities of world and human experiences. Our issues include original content from both emerging and established writers, poets, artists and comedians such as authors, Roxane Gay, Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Stephen Dixon, poets, Moira Egan and David Wagoner and actor/comedian, Zach Galifianakis.