The Stinging Fly Issue 39/Volume 2 Winter 2018-19

FictionJem Day Calder - ‘Distraction from Sadness Is Not the Same Thing as Happiness’James Wilkes - ‘The Cultivators’Aoife Comey - ‘Employment’John Christopher - ‘Germ Dance’Katie Burnip - ‘The Blue Slip Sway’Sean Tanner - ‘The Bank Job’Oisín Fagan - ‘Triangle’Hilary White - ‘Loosely defined it was a relationship’Molly Anders - ‘Reynold’Susanne Stich - ‘Crescent’Oliver Keogh - ‘The Space Between Bottles’Saba Sams - ‘Overnight’Kyle C. Mellen - ‘Winter Hours’PoetryEloise Stevens - ‘I, therapist’Jeffrey Alfier - ‘The View from Mostowa Street’Clare Needham - ‘Parallels | Miracles’Esther Vincent Xueming - ‘we have forgotten’Kieron Corrigan - ‘The Coat’Shriram Sivaramakrishnan - ‘Effluent’Doireann Ní Ghríofa - ‘Hearing The Boatmans Call in a Boston Laundromat’Iain Twiddy - ‘The Pin Tin’Trevor Ketner - ‘[Home is a heart.]’Stefani Tran - ‘nth’Harry Clifton - ‘Redesdale Estate, 1956’Harry Clifton - ‘The Accursed Questions’Eleanna Castroianni - ‘Advice For Those Who Wish To Know The Future’Eleanna Castroianni - ‘Kingfisher’Stephen Sexton - ‘#1 Iggy’s Castle’Stephen Sexton - ‘Yoshi’s Island 4’Stephen Sexton - ‘Yoshi’s Island 3’Featured PoetJames Patterson - ‘[ghost estates]’James Patterson - ‘[the drowning]’James Patterson - ‘[prosopagnosia]’James Patterson - ‘[clouds on a screen at a drive in n j 1960]’James Patterson - ‘[walking by your childhood home]’James Patterson - ‘[postscript]’EssaysSean O'Reilly - ‘Safe Words’Sarah Maria Griffin - ‘Sex Pink Moon’Clare Archibald - ‘Parallel of Past Imperfect’Michaële Cutaya - ‘How Did Books Become Clutter?’Erica X Eisen - ‘The Follies’