"I never did know how to pace myself. I loved too hard, drank too fast, worked too late, told the truth too soon."

"The only reason I have lived so long is that I let go of my past."

—Lucia Berlin

Welcome to our Spring 2026 issue, volume 11.2.  A Manual For... is incited by the life and writing and incomparable style of one of our favorite dirty realist authors, Lucia Berlin.  Dig it.

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FICTION

MUG SHOT by Rebecca Tiger

CLARK BUYS A MOTORCYCLE by Alex Miller

WILD CAUGHT by Buke De Boer

SNOW TO RAIN by Evan Morgan Williams

​DISCIPLE by Charlie Kondek

​FRESH FADES by Jesse Binger

​HOW TO FISH by Andrew Careaga


CREATIVE NONFICTION

HOGZAYDEN by Christopher Stevenson

​ADJUNCT by Travis Turner


VERSE

​FOR SECONDS OF SILENCE or A MANUAL FOR SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION by Grace E. Ludlow