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Spy Reprints “Butchery” by Josh Trapani
Editor’s Note: “Butchery,” from the 15th edition of the Delmarva Review, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in fiction. Author’s Note: “When you’re a scientist doing fieldwork in another part of the world, uncertainty comes […]

Spy Reprints “I Want to Order a Man from the Sweets Catalog” by Fran Abrams
Author’s Note: “I wrote this poem after taking a class on how to write a cento. Looking for a source of words, I thought of the Sweets Construction Catalogue I had used when I worked in an […]

Spy Reprints “Authors” by King Grossman
Author’s Note: “This poem virtually wrote itself when I was hole up writing in Marfa, Texas, a thin place, as in hardly separated from the source. One afternoon outside my back door I espied through […]

Spy Reprints “Goodbye Mr. Kamali” by Sepideh Zamani
Editor’s Note: “Goodbye Mr. Kamali,” from the review’s 15th anniversary edition, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in fiction. Author’s Note: “Growing up in a country under theocratic rule, I witnessed most Iranians suffering […]

Spy Reprints “Now Only in Part” by Marda Messick
Author’s Note: Since I first looked into a kaleidoscope as a young child, I’ve been fascinated by and deeply curious about perception. How do we perceive the world and apprehend mystery? How do we know […]

Spy Reprints “Lemon Ginger Tea” by Robin Gow
Author’s Note: I wrote “Lemon Ginger Tea” after spending a winter afternoon with my brother. We are both at really transitory moments in our lives and this felt especially true that day. Both our conversation […]