Fiction from Sarah “Sam” Saltiel
Photo: Vuitton Lim A Line by Line Translation of Last Night (1) I’d been feeling antsy, been stuck at home too long and all that. I wanted to get my body into motion before I became some sedentary organic matter crumbling into my couch. . . . . . (2) I took myself out […]
Nonfiction from Julia Edinger
Photo: Jairo Alzate The Manifestation of an Eating Disorder It is only when you are vulnerable that she appears. When you are cowering, helpless, and desperate, she comes in the night and shows herself. Little by little, she manifests herself into a being, or rather a beast, and becomes a part of you. She is […]
Poetry from Jessica Mehta
Photo: Mike Tinnion Namesakes My mother named me after her father she hated. Like buying Papo’s notice with a fat grandchild would make up for anything. My mother named me after famous cowboys then went and married an NDN herself. Meanwhile her own mother said No darker. My mom named me the second most popular […]
Poetry from Emily J. Cousins
Photo via Pixabay Perfect Dream Decoder I’ll tell you what we’ll do we will string a cord from your brain to the televisions switch on the monitors one at a time watch the slow motion hooves of your night horses turn over & over the ground will give crack beneath them I will finally know […]
Fiction from Eric Andrew Newman
Photo by Krista Mangulsone Shit House Here you are on your hands and knees again, cleaning shit off the bathroom floor. It’s a messy business, so you strip down until you’re only wearing your boxer shorts and a pair of canary yellow rubber gloves. You pick up the woven blue bath mat, splattered with Jackson […]
Poetry from Tonya Eberhard
Fireworks After dessert there is a lull. Forks devour the patriotic cake, scrape up red and blue frosting smeared on paper plates. The mosquitos are lazy. Weak flyers—they hover out of reach from candles coughing smoke. Star- spangled napkins take flight with the wind. Life hasn’t exhausted you yet. You cry on the short drive […]
Poetry from Griffin Robillard
Photo by Spencer_ Use Within Three Days of Opening Our banner will fall, the clothes heavy with rainwater while every heart at once skips a beat because in the morning with the lights on and my head down I can’t stomach the coffee you made me or the letters I said I’d write or the […]
Poetry from Gad Kaynar-Kissinger
Photo by runnyrem What’s Left Poetry is a safe In a foreign city Hotel. A tour guide Trying to get lost. Salted peanuts In the bar after midnight. A second after they closed. A second before blacking out. Poetry is what’s left After you have left And took the elevator. And walked side by side […]
Fiction from Madeline Anthes
Photo by Milada Vigerova I May Never Be Clean Again Oh, Mother, forgive me, I may never be clean again. I know the words. I heard them whispered over paper napkins and squeezed hands. I heard them as my knees bruised and I pressed my hands into steeples in front of my chest. I heard […]
Fiction from Tess Walsh
Photo by Daniil Kuželev Dandelions We came to Vermont to heal; that’s what the website had promised our parents. Written word therapy sounded just academic enough for us to hold onto our good girl titles. It wasn’t rehab; it was gentler than that. Our problems were gentler than that. The driveway was gravel and the […]
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