The Lamp Volume 13

The Lamp is a literary journal devoted to publishing the creative writing of graduate and professional students around the world. Table of Contents 

9………… Acknowledgements, Rachel M. Friars and Michaela Wipond

11………… Chapter 1: Affinity

12………… Editor’s Note, Rachel M. Friars

13………… Three Boys, Autumn Doucette

14………… Phone Call, Maya Schwartz

17………… Truth Is, Daniel Green

19………… Jober as a Sudge, Mackenzie Gagnier

24………… Second Chances, Matthew Rooney

25………… Pasta alla Vodka, Patrick McArthur

29………… Chapter 2: Ekphrasis

30………… Editor’s Note, Daniel Green 

31………… A. P. Saint Clair, Fabrizio Lacarra Ramirez

32………… Looking at Ivan Tverdun’s Night for the Second Time, Asa Brunet-Jailly

33………… The Frost, Matthew Rooney

34………… Postcard Prayer, Sarah R. Wallace

35………… The Poet, Matthew Rooney

36………… Chapter 3: Flesh

37………… Editor’s Note, Jessica Caravaggio

38………… i’ve been meditating on autoeroticism, ayda donne

39………… BUSH, Maia a.h.

42………… good omen, Raphaela Pavlakos

43………… The Having of It, Paz O’Farrell

55………… Buzz, Autumn Doucette

56………… Chapter 4: Fauna

57………… Editor’s Note, Mackenzie Gagnier

58………… Slugs, Demitri J. Cullen

59………… A Centipede Screams, E.J. Ferrett

60………… The Rumbling of Drums and the Thunderbird, Fabrizio Lacarra 

         Ramirez

61………… On a cold-looking duck, Austin Long

62………… Meditations of Julian’s Cat in the Anchorhold at Norwich,

         Sarah R. Wallace

64………… Chapter 5: Nostalgia

65………… Editor’s Note, Nikta Sadati

66………… lavender on union street pleads in procession, Maya Schwartz

67………… Power lines near San Antonio Dam., Richard Gracial Parnell

68………… Of Voids and Voices: A Home in Exile, Sana Shah

71………… Church on Indian Hill Blvd., Richard Gracial Parnell

72………… Dawn in New Delhi, Anmol Sharma

73………… About the Authors

76………… About the Editors