Issue 45
August 13, 2026
Barrier Islands by Colleen Kearney Rich Deserving Better by Barry
We Come for the Samples
by JR Walsh
That’s what they said. Samples. No one had the guts to tell them otherwise.
The store manager trailed the old timers down every aisle, watching as talcum dusts paper skin, mouthwash gets swished (possibly swallowed), crackers become holy wafers. They could be her parents.
Everything gets marked damaged by delivery.
JR Walsh teaches creative writing at SUNY Oswego. He is the Online Editor for The Citron Review with writing in The Greensboro Review, New World Writing, Flash the Court, The Hong Kong Review, Taco Bell Quarterly, and Esquire. More: itsjrwalsh.com.
Photo by Roma Kaiuk🇺🇦 on Unsplash
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