BareBackMagazine is a quickly growing literary and arts publication dedicated to BareBack writing that is writers who aren't afraid to take off their gloves and bare themselves when creating. POETRY The Meat Rack by Brian Strauss 7 Romusico by David L. Butler 8 Divination by Martina Reisz Newberry 9 Mal's Petal Word by Jane Brooke 11 Cockamamie by Michael Estabrook 13 We are the other parents by Rob Thomas 14 Brief Observations of Things in the Margin by Ali Znaidi 15 Exhibit: Tombstone by Sarah Nguyen 16 I write poetry by Nicolas Fleurot 17 Everything Changes by T.J. Cheverie 18 FICTION In a Dry Season by Jim Finley 21 Trip of a Lifetime by Carolyn V. Egan 24 Jacob by Alyssa Crowder 26 Indigenous Education by John Tavares 28 FLASH FICTION The Locked Out by Daniel Perry 37 Story by HC Hsu 39 She's Perfect by Joseph Edscorn 41 FEATURED POET Carl Miller Daniels the british are coming 44 golden age penis skeleton 46 taking credit for sunday 49 kangaroo vine gold rush 51 the evolutionary squawk 53 THOUGHT About Writers by Damon Ferrell Marbut 55