Poetry from Laurel Radzieski
Photo: raw pixel Reasons That a Person Would Have for Cutting Off the Tops of the Tulips and Leaving Them Where They Fell The tulips were yellow. The culprit was beheaded in a recent past life. A young boy thought he had found a stunning gift for his mother but upon receival she made him […]
Nonfiction and Art from Natalie Vestin
Four Sleepscapes “There is always a split between fragments that are real and fragments that are virtual, between memory and fantasy. These splits have no existence other than being the passage from one fragment to another. They are relays rather than signs. They are traces. They are in-between.” Bernard Tschumi from Architecture and Dysjunction One […]
Nonfiction from Natalia Conte
Photo: Jon Tyson If We Speak of Memories “To let people begin again. It’s beautiful. You look at a baby and it’s so pure, and so free and so clean. And adults are like this mess of sadness.” – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Tucked into the artistic downtown stretch of Greensboro, North Carolina […]
Nonfiction from Andrew Rihn
Photo: raw pixel Tyson vs. Alderson Jul 11, 1985 Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. Avoid the why, begin with the how. Description before motivation. As messy as storytelling. Joyce Carol Oates will go on to call him a savior, of sorts, legendary before there is a legend to define him, while […]
Fiction from Emma Rose Gowans
Photo: Mahkeo I Left the Desert I’m calling mi padre on the old blue landline. I read a conspiracy theory once that our private conversations are secretly recorded as soon as we begin a call. That’s how the FBI tracks landlines—how everything you say on a landline is fair game because that’s how landlines work […]
Poetry from Pamela Taylor
Photo: Ivana Cajina How to Get Emotional Distance When Voodoo is Not an Option March in circles until his words dizzy and fall out of your ears. Heap those sighs and secrets into a glass jar and leave them out in the sun. The bright light will purify any microbes left behind. Let your inner […]
Fiction from Anu Kumar
Photo: Yiqun Tang The City’s Last Mill The city’s last cotton mill was aging rapidly. Already its roof was spliced in half, windows in empty sheds stood bare with an old man’s toothless grin. Rubble gathered in new places every time the demolition team pulled down buildings that no longer fitted into plan. On other […]
Nonfiction from Christopher Valdheims
Photo: Valentin Müller The Cathedral Where, dear God, Will you sojourn after we all die? You have no father, nor dear mother, Not your own dear brothers. – Traditional Latvian verse I was the child of exiles. Born on the streets, and now I was back. Back where? Back here. Back here at the edge […]
Poetry from Jodi Andrews
Photo: Lurm Converge Inspired by There and Back by Skye Gilkerson It’s all swirled inward like a snail shell, debris from the Kármán line. Broken pieces of teacups, a lone handle, half the cup laid on its cracked edge; plate shards lined up in a row, pastel pink and blue bottoms exposed. Bits placed gingerly side by […]
Poetry from Sorayya Moss
Photo: Mathew Schwartz In a Stem We’ve been flower and stamen. …..and I’m stricken, ………………………forever. There was Mao, and me, and how___ …..we’ve blown in the wind, and with our kin, I’m stuck, it’s him. . . Sorayya Moss studied literature and philosophy in France, currently lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and has been […]
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