Poetry from Nicole Scott
Photo: Deleece Cook The Mob Goes Wild The couch crowed about its rips for each girl who lost her virginity on its paisley olive cushions. The afghan had a hole for each jet-black stiletto stabbed through, rough housing with the rich neighbor boy. Ladies didn’t care who were ladies or if their crackers got crumbs […]
Poetry from KB Baltz
Photo: sandid Bower Birds After the fire grandma’s house with its glass eggs cat knick-knacks and ancient china was pushed into the sea by a yellow bulldozer with no sympathy for memory or the smell of mothballs and hand rolled cigarettes. After the fire grandma’s house was pushed into the sea and red headed girls […]
Poetry from Satya Dash
Photo: Clay Banks Photosynthesis The closest I got to myself was when I tried slitting my wrist with the blade of a shaking leaf unfurling like a long finger’s curse only to find a wreck of the world’s errata at the entrance sat Orpheus singing only poetry makes sense of all this in poems I […]
Poetry from Cliff Saunders
Photo: Krissia Cruz On Both Knees I want to make light bulbs flicker in every corner of a venerable house. I want a moth greener than a grocery store to hold moral high ground. I want to fix the confusion about salt and the unknown. I’m not going to blow this, and neither are caterpillars […]
Fiction from Jessica Sadler
Photo: Adam Solomon Baltimore Speak To describe this accent on paper is impossible except through seemingly unrelated comparisons: it sounds like a hand gliding up my thigh, starting at the knee and slowly gaining pressure midway at the meat of muscle and fat, then drawing a semi-circle with the thumb at the base of my […]
Poetry from Maggie Fulmer
Photo: Stéphan Valentin Out of Order I insert the dollar four times before I notice the sign. My mom isn’t around, but I can hear her – If you roll your eyes again, they’ll get stuck like that. The kids on the corner pretend the stone wall is a balance beam – gymnasts with cherry […]
Fiction from Jad Josey
Photo: Cherry Laithang It Finally Happened The sun dissolved into the sea today. It finally happened this time—it was not a metaphor for your fading love or a simile about your joy winking out like a light. The sun touched down, an inverted avalanche of steam cascading skyward as our best star tipped into the […]
Fiction from Soramimi Hanarejima
Photo: Luis Villasmil Safe Keeping After we switch reflections to see what that’s like, you leave the bathroom. I follow you into the kitchen where you fix us a snack. I guess you’re hungry and assume we’ll switch back later in the afternoon. We don’t. But that’s fine. I’m not particularly attached to my reflection […]
Fiction from Kim Magowan
Photo: Jong Marshes Cancel Culture It’s widely known that I never said “Let them eat cake.” What I said was brioche, and everyone knows this means bread. But because I was foreign, because I was young and rich and pretty, because my husband didn’t love me, because my husband was a fool, this story caught […]
Nonfiction from Eimear Laffan
Photo: Nasim Keshmiri Aspirational Self-Portrait as Reindeer and Fox In the beginning there’s a flimsy coat of snow on the brickwork porch outside my ground floor apartment, a copy of King Lear limp on the coffee table. Twitter reliably informs me that Shakespeare wrote the tragedy during the plague. I score a copy from the local library […]
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