I’d like to welcome you to the 8th issue of Crab Fat Magazine. This issue is markedly different from our previous issues, in that we’ll no longer be producing PDFs versions. I’d also like to announce our shift from a quarterly to a monthly journal: what we’re presenting below will be our format from now on. After months of deliberation, we’ve also decided to stop our bi-weekly updates in favor of publishing one issue online every month (the exception being our print best of anthology in June). July will mark our transition into a smaller monthly collection of literary work (the atheist issue!). We’re still seeking quality prose, poetry, and art for every forthcoming issue and hope you’ll enjoy seeing Crab Fat more frequently.
Thanks for reading!
Caseyrenée, editor-in-chief
Natalie Lombardi | Issue 8 Cover Artist
POETRY
1 poem | Alabama Stone
2 poems | Alec Vanthournout
1 poem | Bekah Steimel
1 poem | Cara Losier Chanoine
2 poems | Rosie DeSantis
2 poems | Celia Rudd
1 poem | Elijah Pearson
3 poems | Jacinta Clay
1 poem | Eloísa Pérez-Lozano
1 poem | Genelle Chaconas
1 poem | Giovanna Coppola
1 poem | Hillary Leftwich
1 poem | Ian Abernathy
2 poems | Alice King
1 poem | James Prenatt
1 poem | Jemma Hoolahan
2 poems | Kyra Wolff
1 poem | Liz Purvis
1 poem | M. DeCapua
2 poems | Rachel Anna Neff
3 poems | Rachel Schmieder-Gropen
1 poem | Saira Viola
2 poems | Sara Ryan
1 poem | Susan Beall Summers
2 poems | Thomas Hill
3 poems | Yani Robinson
1 poem | Zelma Cable
1 poem | Allison Thorpe
2 poems | Zach Trebino
1 poem | Eric Alexander Cline
1 poem | Erica Charis
FICTION
Black Box Equinox | Susan Tu
A Switch-Stance in SoHo | Chas Blankenship
Samara | Colin Talmage
Numbers Station | Jude Conlee
She Says | Hailey Dodges
Silken Threads, Woven Nests | Brigitte N. McCray
Sanguine Skies | Bhavika Sicka
Flying | Audrey Blaufuss
DRAMA
Refractions (A Closet Drama) | Nicholas Lawrence
ART
2 art pieces | Nazifa Islam
5 art pieces | Cesar Valtierra
3 art pieces | Vivian Calderón Bogoslavsky
1 art piece | Fabio Sassi
1 art piece | Samm Cohen