The Common: Issue #14 by Jennifer Acker

Contents
“The Common Statement” by Jennifer Acker

Fiction
“The Sky in Ohio” by Michael Byers

“Into Air” by Kenan Orhan

“Uncollected Territories” by Kirstin Allio

“The Interior” by Adam Padgett

“You’re the Sweetest One” by LaShonda Katrice Barnett

Excerpt from A Loving, Faithful Animal by Josephine Rowe

Essays
“The Tao of Sunbathing” by Megan Mayhew Bergman

“Decriminalization: A Love Story” by Susana Ferreira

“Vanishing Point” by Anya Ventura

“The Town with the Golden Future” by Will Preston

Poetry
“This Morning I Miss Such Devotion” by Vievee Francis

“Fayum Portrait” by James Hoch

“The Lifesaver” by L. S. Klatt

“The Children’s Wing” by Maria Terrone

“New Wave: Post Op” by Maria Terrone

“Waiting On Results” by Nicholas Friedman

“Repeat” by John Freeman

“Mons of Luke Al Dente” by Colin Channer

“From Books and Correspondences A Short History of Decay, E. M. Cioran” by Daniel Lawless

“Swallowtail” by Daniel Tobin

“In the Natural World” by Lawrence Raab

“An Education” by Lawrence Raab

“The Syrophoenician Woman” by Mariam Williams

“Kul” by Fatimah Asghar

“On My Problems” by Loren Goodman

“Poem” by Loren Goodman

“Some Do” by Matt Salyer

“Corey” by Mik Awake

“Graffito Beholds a Sculpted Dionysus Head” by Steve Barbaro

“First Elegy” by Alberto de Lacerda (translated by Scott Laughlin)

“Loss and its Antonym” by Alison Prine

“The Old City” by Nausheen Eusuf

Art
“Series of Thought” by Michael Mazur and Betsey Garand