Alex Tretbar, author of the chapbook Kansas City Gothic (Broken Sleep, 2025), teaches free writing classes to the community at the Kansas City Public Library. Raised in Wichita, he is an MFA candidate at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Still Life with a Seashell and Dr. Caligari

by Alex Tretbar

Say I were to say, “Say something.”
Say the woodwinds were full of snow.
Or, “It’s blue, the shape of the air unable

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