Volume 6 * 2021

Main Squeeze goes digital for its first ever online-only volume.

Featuring 28 works by 17 talented authors and artists, the planning, editing, and organization of this 2021 edition was done remotely. While a new experience for everyone involved, our goal to publish a volume of engaging, thoughtful, and fun work never wavered.

To view our contributor’s wonderful pieces, continue scrolling down and click on the italicized titles.

From everyone at Main Squeeze: thank you, and enjoy!

Staff

Editor-in-Chief: April Reid
Fiction Editor: Tyler Noland
Nonfiction Editor: Cassidy Hausmann
Art Editor: Ellie Stanton
Poetry Editor: Beck Weiser
Cover & Logo Design: Kei Oni Garcia
Website Layout: Amber McGee
General Staff: Chester Leierer, Renae McElravy, Celeste Keplin, Susannah Perillat, Geogre Kerscher, Chad Pelote, Ashley Hobson

Fiction

This Night is For You and For Me, by Asher Astrum
Parabiotic Thoughts, by Travis Tyler Madden

Nonfiction

Confessing a Secret, by Rachel A.G. Gilman
How are youuuuu, by Rachel A.G. Gilman
I’m Floating in a Best Western Pool, by Matthew Watson
Green Fathers, by Rhiannon Chavez

Art

Études, by Matthew Watson
Heading Home, by Matthew Watson
Memories of Jessica, by Matthew Watson
Bless This Mess, by Susannah Perillat
If I’m Coming or Going, by Susannah Perillat
Awakening, by Dawn Lake
Stream of Consciousness, by Dawn Lake

Poetry

Paper Things, by Coral Robinson
The Eyes, by Coral Robinson
I Still Don’t Know How to Swim, by Clara Griffin
shutters and photographs, by Goodness Olanrewaju Ayoola
A CONSECUTIVE MAYBE OR SOLID MASS FINALLY, by Rhiannon Chavez
3 Poems, by Darren C. Demaree
Frogger, by Gracie Britton
A Triangle Instead, by Carl Boon
On Aesthetic Experience, by Brittany Ober
Blame it on Bolaño, by Brittany Ober
Over Five Hours, by Steve Denehan
The Kite Maker, by Steve Denehan
Fangs, by Kelcey Davis
My Skin Color is Not Your Aesthetic, by Dianira Piceno
Sunny Day 20/20, by Susannah Perillat