January 2024
The Inaugural Issue
January 2024 The Inaugural Issue
January Cover Art
Many thanks to our very special contributors who made The Argyle’s inaugural issue such an amazing success:
Poetry: Michael D. Amitin • Clara Bulgherea • Karina Bush • Taylor Dibbert • Roy Duffield • Ashley Elizabeth • R.M. Engelhardt • David Estringel • Leah Meuller • Lauren Scharhag • Ron Whitehead
Fiction: Timothy Bourdreau • Ryan Dennis • David Estringel • Julian Gallo • Colin Gee • Neil Gordon • D.A. Helmer • Chiara Maxia • Elena L. Zhang
Nonfiction: David Estringel • Ron Whitehead
Digital Art: Karina Bush • Paul Warren • Stephen Michael Whitter
I Refuse to Become an AI Smartphone Zombie
Nonfiction by Ron Whitehead
“And now, here in the gap between thought and image, where the only distance is creative distance, here, now, at the end of time…”
Pankow
Fiction by Chiara Maxia
“The mating ritual was short but intense. When a word failed, the whole universe screamed in its place.”
You’ll Always be Wifey to Me
Fiction by Timothy Boudreau
“Not to be a jerk, but if you don’t think it’s working, then I don’t understand why you’re still here.”
Eleven Secrets in No Particular Order
Fiction by Timothy Boudreau
“She caught you again when you were twenty-four when she came into your bedroom to wake you for work. You were facing the wall, humping the extra pillow.”
Mile Six Four Two
Fiction by Colin Gee
“Molly,” I said after some time, after coughing blood into a napkin, “you have hardly touched your cake.”
Dishes Best Served Cold
Nonfiction by David Estringel
“So goes living the life you ask for (not the one you wanted).”
Digital Art by Stephen Michael Whitter and Paul Warren
Digital Art by Stephen Michael Whitter and Paul Warren
Reading of “The Dead Pile”
An Exceprt from The Beasts They Turned Away
Fiction by Ryan Dennis
“The canopy above, thick with leaf cover, seals out the light of the day. Puts the remains in perpetual twighlight.”
Digital Art by Karina Bush
Digital Art by Karina Bush
Your Turn
Fiction by Elena L. Zhang
“…the possibility tumbling inside of her hands like clothes in a washer machine and no one knowing if the stain will come out…”
4 Poems
Poetry by Ashley Elizabeth
“Tent city don’t hurt nothing
but the image of a bright Baltimore,
charm city, it is not.”
Three Poems
Poetry by Clara Bulgherea
“I tattooed his words on my left wrist:
the angels, the muses, the duende
hoping, begging for its breath to coat
my poems…”
Four Poems
Poetry by R. M. Engelhardt
“SO
LET THERE BE
REVOLUTION
REVOLUTION
REVOLUTION”
The Antinomian Fire This Time
Poetry by Ron Whitehead
“The bone man dances circles…
until he fills the room
with the smell of roses
and a pandemonium moon.”
Only So Much
Poetry by Taylor Dibbert
“He knows
Only so much
Can be
Unwound.”
Rain Over the Atlantic
Fiction by Julian Gallo
“Big boys weren’t supposed to cry, nor were they supposed to be afraid of “a little rain.”
Trap
Fiction by Neil Gordon
“You’ll get no help here, son.”
Something to Believe
Fiction by D. A. Helmer
“…she had curves that could make any man, woman, or Rabbi crawl the gauntlet for her approval.”
Roadkill
Fiction by David Estringel
“…ultimately, I was left navigating a cold world of hard edges and empty space.“
Four Poems
Poetry by Leah Mueller
“Nothing is nothing again
and it couldn’t be happier. “