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Fiction

Cross On the Highway by Anthony D’Aries

September 27, 2021

For the same reasons, I prefer the tree to the gravestone: No pretense.

Non-Fiction

Courtside Tickets for the Nightmare by Lauren Christiansen

September 27, 2021

I’m burrowed into the wormwood of my disgusting ennui, and all I’m getting is this stupid tee shirt.

Fiction

Third Kidney by Kaitlyn Burd

September 27, 2021

But, really, what I am afraid of is my body unattended, my body at mercy to someone else.

Fiction

Side Gate by John Brantingham

September 27, 2021

This is the way into love, or at least it’s yours.

Non-Fiction

Backstory: Issue 4 Art by Gabriela Knutson

September 27, 2021

It was a pleasure and a joy to select images from my collection and pair them together with the poetry, flash, and short fiction pieces published in this issue of Five South.

A Parisian Affair by Kevin Wranovix
Inspiration is a foggy fellow, emerging from nothing, dissipating into nothing, answering to nothing.
Our Theseus by Nathan Jefferson
Last week he was a dishwasher who his coworkers called Ricky. Today he’s a day laborer named Eddie, clearing a pair of fallen trees off a new build’s lawn and fixing up a large garden. Rotting plank ripped out, new plank inserted.
Robbing the Pillars by Marie Goyette
Ruth stood on the narrow iron bridge, gripping her father’s obsidian necklace, and wondered how many years it would take before the river wore them both down to nothing.
The Call by Eben E. B. Bein
I hungered into that quiet until— there—unbelievable!— a wolf spider scuttled onto a leaf.
Saturation by Claire Oleson
I no longer harangue every desk nurse at every hospital for a taxonomic breakdown of her bills. I don’t ask for the numbers of the Benadryl, the water cups, the abdominal touches done with gloved hands. I am the most American I’ve ever been—she costs what she costs and I eat it.