Quinn Adikes

Quinn Adikes’s work appears or is forthcoming in Five Points, Epiphany, december, the Southampton Review, Fiction International, and other journals. He is the recipient of the Joseph Kelly Prize for Writing and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Brooklyn and has an MFA from Stony Brook Southampton, where he also taught creative writing. He is writing a novel.

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Those Who Wait

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Issue 72.1 Fall 2023

You got on our boat and left for work. I stayed on our island and waited for you. ▴ ▴ ▴ Now, I’m tired. Anemic. Dehydrated. Allergic to shellfish. I wake up every morning at six and lay in bed until eight. I light nag champa and close my eyes and breathe—seven in, five out, seven in, […]

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Piecing it Together

Quinn Adikes reflects on writing as collaging.