“The boys were never apart, from the earliest they were inseparable. They slept in the same bed, ate from the same plate, fought the same fights.”
Fiction: The Brothers
Flash Fiction: Peaches
“Wait,” he would tell us. “You’ll have to wait.”
December Issue, 2025
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
In the Weeds
They’re not meant to last very long, these votives, these penny candles.
A Weird and Joyful World: An Interview With Calef Brown
“The humans, human-animals and animal-animals in my books are the deliverers of the spirit of my work, and its substance — character, humor, wordplay, story, color, and visual pleasure.” An interview with Calef Brown.
Letter From the Editor, August, 2025: Cloud Studies
With clouds, within seconds, you’re working from your memory of a thing that is as nebulous and beautiful and temperamental as memory itself. As confusing as memory, seen from within the mist, as perplexing seen from afar.
Rye Tippett: Poems and Paintings
Some poems and paintings from Rye Tippett.
February Issue, 2025
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
Flash fiction: Storm Warning
The river smell becomes the rain smell, and the rain comes, as it always does, expected but surprising, changing everything.
January Issue, 2025
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
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