Mollyhouse: Issue Five

By Raymond Luczak

This fifth issue of Mollyhouse features artwork by Salvador Sanchez as well as poetry and prose by Ken Anderson | M.J. Arcangelini | Merrill Cole | Marc Frazier | Denis Harnedy | Glenn Ingersoll | Christina Marable | Chael Needle | Eric Norris | Katie E. Peckham | Kenneth Pobo | Kris Ringman | Gregg Shapiro | Allen Smith | Lynn White | Kathi Wolfe. This issue is edited by Raymond Luczak.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Handtype Press
• Release date: Feb 24, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215620663

Raymond Luczak

Raymond Luczak is the author and editor of twenty books. Titles include The Kinda Fella I Am: Stories and QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology. His Deaf gay novel Men with Their Hands won first place in the Project: QueerLit Contest 2006. His work has been nominated nine times for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He can be found online at raymondluczak.com.

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MOLLYHOUSE

Issue Five

Edited by

Raymond Luczak

Squares & Rebels

Minneapolis, MN

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The cover artwork is by Salavador Sanchez. [Image description: A young white man with longish dark hair parted to the side wears a pale gray-blue hoodie, a dark pants, and a pair of black shoes that are untied while he shows a flat expression on his face. In his fists, facing down near his knees, are two thick black cables that drop down into a Y and disappears below the bottom edge of the image. The tops of his fists have a tiny white spot from which rays project out: the rays from his right fist are dark red-orange in hue, and the rays from his left fist are of pale gray-blue. The floor is of a dark gold color, and the wall behind the man seems not just another wall but a wall of many clouds cascading all the way up on a pale gray-blue sky behind the chair. On the floor between the sitting man are two smaller doors that are opened: the one on the left shows an oversized creature with a mask-like face in both black and gold while baring their white teeth while a man in black carrying a black umbrella over his head looks headed for that door, and the one on the right shows something of a forest with two trees and possibly a road; a white man wearing a dark red shirt, jeans, and sneakers is headed toward that door. This same man seems to be kneeling before the top of this door and looking down. The trim for both doors shares the same gold color as the floor. Six other opened doors of varying sizes populate the wall of clouds. Starting clockwise slightly on the left, a very small door shows a person sitting against the doorframe on the right. The next door shows what seems to be a man at half-height; it’s almost as if he’s looking through a window instead of a door. The next door down to the right shows what seems someone wearing a white jacket and sitting near a roll of packed hay. The next door, downward to the left of the previous door, shows what seems to be the top of a telephone pole. The next door, sharply on the left side of the painting, shows inside a person looking away as if there’s a streak across the dark sky. A man is kneeling before the top of the door, looking down; his hands are right on the doorframe. Right next to the opened door is a short long-haired woman standing in profile on a cloud. Up above and right behind her is a man sitting on a cloud with his back to us. Above the sitting man is another door showing a smaller person wearing red/orange while outside at night. On the right side of the door is a woman sitting against the doorframe. Framing this image is the same color as the rays shooting out of