ISSUE 14 – March 2016

It’s issue 14 of The Brasilia Review.

Johnston: Our first whiskey review is a masterpiece of punchy, funny, authoritative prose.

Mattie: Contains a textbook example of a Bloomian trope. Marvelous.

Peterson: Pulls concise, fine imagery from the present setting to spark unease for the future.

Renee: How you get down the unable-to-be-thought, originally.

Sakshi: Its form allows a plumbing of its theme more deeply than a simple presentation.

T.S.A.D.: The anxiety of influence reacts jubilantly. Perfect, gnostically.

 

Our next issue will be in July 2016. Submissions are open!

 

Fiction

Describe the color red to a blind woman by B. Chris Renee

         “It is the volume of your voice hitting heaven’s gates when you beg to let it go.”

 

Non-Fiction

Hell-Cat Maggie Irish Whiskey by Joseph Johnston

        “It smells like a little bit like a hangover and a lot bit like an ad agency.”

 

Poetry

Snow Birds by Heidi Mattie

        “we only live here / in the coolest part of the year”

when we speak by Jacob Levi Peterson

        “pulling emotion from the descriptions you turn loose”

stranger by Sakshi

        “i crave you, you crave me [baby]”

Sonnet to Philip K. Dick by T.S.A.D.

        “Kandinskies, all that stuff, / flew flashing past my eyes”