Welcome to Barnstorm.
We are a literary journal.
We publish written and visual artwork that is playful, takes risks, and harnesses energy.
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Volume 16 Issue 3
Featuring writing by:
Lizzie Benge, Kiyoko Reidy, Jason M. Vaughn, and Tess Canfield
and visual art by:
Richard Hanus, Alexey Deyneko, and Jack Florek
Featured artwork: “Eyes 5” by Alexey Deyneko
“I throw salt
over my shoulder, but the devil has a thousand
eyes.”
— Kiyoko Reidy, “The Record”
Volume 16, Issue 3
Featured artwork: Image 40 by Richard Hanus
“She doesn’t even know if tonight will erase her brother’s odious laughter from her memory. All she knows is that for the first time in her eight and a half years, Mason deserves to be punished.”
— Tess Canfield, “Problem Child”
Volume 16, Issue 3
Featured artwork: Water Rock Land Ice City God by Jack Florek
“There’s a desperation in Maggie’s eyes, and in her unhesitating violence. Could there be more going on than just some action that instinct drew out of her? Could there be frustration? Anger? I’m reminded of how doctors used to slap human babies to help introduce them to breathing outside of their mothers. Something we learned from the animals?”
— Jason M. Vaughn, “Quail”
Volume 16, Issue 3
“The patients cling to us. They think we have answers. We think we have answers. But every night I go home and all I have are numbers echoing in my head—oxygen saturation, pulse rate, blood pressure, beeping monitors. I try to sleep and see lines, peaks and valleys, the last rhythms of strangers.”
— Lizzie Benge, “Do Not Linger”
Volume 16, Issue 3