Contributors

Stephen O'Connor

Contributor History

Man in the Moon, Conjunctions:50
Disappearance and, Conjunctions:52
’Til There Was You, Conjunctions:55
’Til There Was You, Conjunctions:55 (mp3, 00:19:14)
I Would Never Do These Things, Conjunctions:58
Next to Nothing, Conjunctions:60
The Zip, Conjunctions:62
The End of the End of the World, Conjunctions:66
The End of the End of the World, Conjunctions:66 (mp3, 00:13:52)
Little Rooms, Conjunctions:69 (64–78)
Coyotes, Conjunctions:71
Five Laments for Our Good Earth, Online 06-11-2019

Biography

Photo © Anna Levine

Stephen O’Connor is the author of six books, most recently Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings (Viking), a novel, and Here Comes Another Lesson (Free Press), short stories. His story, “Ziggurat,” was read by Tim Curry on Selected Shorts. He teaches in the Sarah Lawrence MFA writing program.

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In Print

Conjunctions:76

Fortieth Anniversary Issue

Spring 2021
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

After the Eye Surgery,

by Jesse Kohn

July 21, 2021

“Well, technically batshit,” I’d tell him, and I’d remind him that, seeing as we were trapped in this cave—“Cave?” he’d say, and I’d say, “Yeah, the cave we’re recovering from eye surgery in,” and he’d say, “Oh right”—and that seeing as we’d be thus—“pardon the expression,” I’d say—interred for at least as long as it took to recover, that the cave would be, for all intents and purposes, what we’d have to mean, from here on out, by the word world; and thus bats, who were the only creatures still flitting in and out of the cave’s narrow apertures and thereby participating in the larger ecosystem and importing to an otherwise inhospitable environment the most basic elements needed to sustain life, their excretions would need to be, for the foreseeable future, what we’d have to mean when we’d say sun.

Five Poems

by Alex Braslavsky

July 14, 2021

And all manner of head swerves.
Three people flew past me, but did not see.
It’s not even clear what happens to the chicken on the bobsled.

Trails . . . that slither with their cake.
Will you have more?

The Holographer

by Julianna Baggott

May 26, 2021

I remember how, when we got word that it was okay to emerge, my parents opened the front door. My mother was holding an aluminum baseball bat, my father had a shovel. The three of us were in our hazmat suits. (Mine had grown a little taut. I was eleven years old and had gotten taller and rounder.) Our breaths were trapped in our masks.

How long had we been indoors? Time was hard to figure. It had been well over two years. But had it been three?