Contributors

Adrian Van Young

Contributor History

The Man Who Wore Death, Online 12-06-2016

Biography

Adrian Van Young is the author of The Man Who Noticed Everything, a collection of stories, and Shadows in Summerland, a novel. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Collagist, Black Warrior Review, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Slate, VICE, The Believer, and The New Yorker, among others.

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In Print

Conjunctions:70

Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue

Spring 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Incomplete Enlightenment

by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

October 16, 2018

The knife was raised
before there was an after.
He cried out, “Stop, stop!
“My name means laughter.”

The Necklace

by Ashton Politanoff

October 9, 2018

It was his mother’s necklace, so it had value to him, more value to him than probably to his wife. It was meant for a woman though, so he couldn’t wear it.

Three Poems

by Evan Gill Smith

October 2, 2018

Song of Betel leaves being moved
from one cheek to the other and
someone sleeps on a sofa, the peal
of fleecy bells in the distance.
These real things. These real
things that make everything
real around them.