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twenty years of contrary magazine menu on the contrary about us contact us donate to writers fund submissions search contrary archives 2023 summer 2023 spring 2023 winter 2023 2022 autumn 2022 summer 2022 spring 2022 winter 2022 2021 autumn 2021 summer 2021 spring 2021 winter 2021 2020 autumn 2020 summer 2020 spring 2020 winter 2020 2019 autumn 2019 summer 2019 spring 2019 winter 2019 2018 autumn 2018 15th anniversary summer 2018 spring 2018 winter 2018 2017 autumn 2017 summer 2017 winter and spring 2017 2016 autumn 2016 summer 2016 spring 2016 winter 2016 2015 autumn 2015 summer 2015 spring 2015 winter 2015 2014 autumn 2014 summer 2014 spring 2014 winter 2014 2013 autumn 2013 tenth anniversary summer 2013 spring 2013 winter 2013 2012 autumn 2012 summer 2012 spring 2012 winter 2012 2011 autumn 2011 summer 2011 spring 2011 winter 2011 2010 autumn 2010 summer 2010 spring 2010 winter 2010 2009 autumn 2009 summer 2009 spring 2009 winter 2009 2008 autumn 2008 summer 2008 spring 2008 winter 2008 2007 autumn 2007 summer 2007 spring 2007 winter 2007 2006 autumn 2006 summer 2006 spring 2006 2005 winter 2005 autumn 2005 summer 2005 spring 2005 2004 autumn winter 2004 summer 2004 spring 2004 2003 winter 2003 autumn 2003 inaugural issue poetry fiction commentary non fiction reviews subscribe 20 contrary years a selection the human landscapes of edward mc whinney by edward mc whinney contrary has published 40 stories by edward mc whinney the percipient and enigmatic writer from cork you ll find them all here starting with the first wistful tale advice get the farewell right that introduced us to the wordsmith who would would charm our hearts anew with each submission outis odysseus by catherine rockwood three true stories by jennifer delisle my child does not sleep so i go walking with the bones of the dead the stroller wheels click along the path trees frame panes of light across the rows the plots green and even are misnamed trading stories for simple verse for peace blackbirds baked in a pie by carolee bennett swan garden by lucy zhang when they take off into the sky wings skimming the surface of water and a thin spread of algae it s like the air vibrates sound waves colliding gas molecules so that even from behind a window i hear a swooping gust followed by silence stolen missed connections by julia kolchinsky dasbach dark matter by mandira pattnaik if the boy continues to ruminate he ll have dark thoughts no one to stop him not even the girl he is always thinking about the one who plays with toads talks to them and squints hard when he talks to her when they meet near the village square ad astra per aspera by bette lynch husted rooms by abby minor the bathroom must have been cold in winter our house was heated by a woodstove downstairs but i remember it only in summer the window open a blue green damp coming down off the allegheny foothills meditation on the butterfly effect by britney corrigan after hours by heather de bel the bathroom must have been cold in winter our house was heated by a woodstove downstairs but i remember it only in summer the window open a blue green damp coming down off the allegheny foothills a cutter s sestina prom 95 by carolyn hembree the idea of birds by valerie lute i read poems about trains about the people and places that pass by in an instant indians and women in calico dresses about something lost on a journey or found then he reads mock orange and eros by louise glück he doesn t know what they are about but knows he feels sorry for her stillbirth by rae hoffman jager the unbearable here by kami westhoff and kelly magee mother here s what i need you to know this is going to hurt this is going to slip under your nail black and blue it s pink you ll breathe this in while you sleep a knot edgy and fibrous that leaves hair thin strips of me in your soup or your peanut butter the part of the throat only reachable by a gag you think i never was how gypsy invented the tease by ciara shuttleworth declining rooms by martin cloutier lori ran out of her house and into the rain she didn t bother to lock the door or check the mailbox or feed the cats she d left her lipstick and earrings on the bathroom sink her umbrella was inside the hall closet lost underneath a jumble of cody s earth shoes allegory by kiki petrosino subjects for the smoking room by megan wildhood a red haired woman in a ballgown strolls out of an er there is a sky just enough madness on it there are flattened halved pieces of rock for sidewalk travelogue by hilary dobel love like all the stars in the sky by rafael torch my mother told me just this morning friday june 17 2011 that i should write something about how my affliction with cancer is really an affliction that the whole family has in some way i believe her i believe it the lesson by isaac ginsberg miller mausoleum by donna d vitucci a body wants to lie down it wants to buy a plot who will meet you at the entrance to this mausoleum she there with her head in her hands woman of sorrow guarding the steps bent to a phosphorous moss so slimy and insidious it liquefies stone on gratitude by despy boutris the last miracle of kitezh by elizabeth sowden a body wants to lie down it wants to buy a plot who will meet you at the entrance to this mausoleum she there with her head in her hands woman of sorrow guarding the steps bent to a phosphorous moss so slimy and insidious it liquefies stone dot tires of everyone assuming she s straight by erin elizabeth smith say uncle by eugenio volpe last day at assumption bricking the belfry two hundred feet in the sky it s hard thinking up here so i don t i do my job one brick at a time some small talk with the young tenders one of them got lucky last night they chisel him for details but he stays mum it takes all kinds by josh lefkowitz pablo escobar s hippos by jane hammons the blue eyed plecostomus will not eat shit and they will not eat driftwood covered in shit it is unfortunate that submerged wood sustains them because pablo escobar s hippos unload turd after constant turd coating the driftwood of the magdalena river native habitat of the blue eyed plecostomus who will not eat their shit they d rather die plum island by andrew coburn i ve seen him here before this hour of the day the sun sinking ebb tide and on this same spot on plum island where he stands apart from the other fishermen who look like fishermen he doesn t why annie oakley and dolly parton had no children by sara moore wagner dear john james audubon by cindy hunter morgan i hung suet early this year not because i was particularly organized but because i was eager for the companionship of birds planting by samuel hovda vaucluse by laura elizabeth woollett virid is the spring that snakes through our garden dappled with sun shade snake skin surrounded by choked up laurels and strange purple flowers that waver in the water like reflected nightmares when we were girls by julianna baggott i m lying on the edge of the lake my head is cupped by ice crusted mud my hands and bare feet tingle a cop is there hovering over me she s a black woman in her thirties her eyes wet and shining from the cold wind gilt by kierstin bridger we were girls once dancing by curtis smith i cup my hand to the dj s ear we ve stumbled into that sloppy part of the night the cake cut the bouquet tossed the grandparents and children on their way to bed and the men around the bar loosen their ties and order another round toy elegy ending in ars poetica with lines from w s merwin by emma depanise ascenscion by kevin heath when he met me he stood so close to the lunch table that i had to look straight up him as one might look up the contours of an overhanging cliff which meant that he had to look straight down at me as one might look over the very edge of the cliff eating the new species by marilyn kallett abandoned art by leah beckhoff i once fell in love with a girl who abandoned all of her art never signed any of her paintings she d fold up little pieces of paper into lotus flowers jumping frogs and staple them to bulletin boards around town or leave them sitting on tables at the laundromat at bars she d pick at her beer bottle until the label peeled off in one piece and leave it a rose inside the bouquet on the counter rename the birds by weston cutter disjointed notes on healing by sung yim i m freshly eighteen years old the piercer clamps my tongue with forceps and says oh that thing s just begging to be pierced this discomfort is layered and hard to describe his rubber gloves are smooth as what skin i think should be like the factory by rebecca lehman the empty armchair by cynthia newberry martin being sick has taken away the busy surface of my life gone are the errands and the superficial the insubstantial the time wasting being still is forcing me to reflect on what remains boil a life down to its essence freeze it and see what rises tucked into bed my body is at rest but my eyes search the room settling on the blue armchair more from contrary s first decade selected works 2003 2023 the human landscapes of edward mc whinney by edward mc whinney three poems by despy boutris three poems by rae hoffman jager dark matter by mandira pattnaik we were girls once dancing by curtis smith when we were girls by julianna baggott outis odysseus by catherine rockwood why annie oakley and dolly parton had no children by sara moore wagner swan garden by lucy zhang dear john james audubon by cindy hunter morgan after hours by heather de bel three poems by emma depanise abandoned art by leah beckhoff the idea of birds by valerie lute mausoleum by donna d vitucci the lesson by isaac ginsberg miller ad astra per aspera by bette lynch husted it takes all kinds by josh lefkowitz the unbearable here by kami westhoff and kelly magee subjects for the smoking room by megan wildhood rooms by abby minor three poems by carolee bennett how gypsy invented the tease by ciara shuttleworth three poems by samuel hovda a cutter s sestina prom 95 by carolyn hembree say uncle by eugenio volpe three true stories by jennifer delisle dot tires of everyone assuming she s straight by erin elizabeth smith two poems by britney corrigan pablo escobar s hippos by jane hammons disjointed notes on healing by sung yim the last miracle of kitezh by elizabeth sowden gilt by kierstin bridger stolen missed connections by julia kolchinsky dasbach love like all the stars in the sky by rafael torch allegory by kiki petrosino the empty armchair by cynthia newberry martin darwin three poems by marilyn kallet travelogue by hilary dobel plum island by andrew coburn ascenscion by kevin heath summer 2023 caught by leah browning two poems by heather truett about dumbo by kaitlin tan four poems by sarah mccartt jackson at the place of the rapids by conor robin madigan someday i identify as a prairie by nnadi samuel not yet twenty by edward mc whinney spring 2023 dionysius by jerusha crone absolute arse by edward mc whinney vanilla sensibilities by rebecca cawley hassall what colour is a gum leaf and what shape by emma wilkins winter 2023 the refugee by sandra carlson khalil stars on the ceiling by john abbott miles and music by lesley mahoney o connell the freight by anna ufaeva saturnine by edward mc whinney archives of all 20 years archives by date 2023 summer 2023 spring 2023 winter 2023 2022 autumn 2022 summer 2022 spring 2022 winter 2022 2021 autumn 2021 summer 2021 spring 2021 winter 2021 2020 autumn 2020 summer 2020 spring 2020 winter 2020 2019 autumn 2019 summer 2019 spring 2019 winter 2019 2018 autumn 2018 15th anniversary summer 2018 spring 2018 winter 2018 2017 autumn 2017 summer 2017 winter and spring 2017 2016 autumn 2016 summer 2016 spring 2016 winter 2016 2015 autumn 2015 summer 2015 spring 2015 winter 2015 2014 autumn 2014 summer 2014 spring 2014 winter 2014 2013 autumn 2013 tenth anniversary summer 2013 spring 2013 winter 2013 2012 autumn 2012 summer 2012 spring 2012 winter 2012 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