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Rocky by Adrienne Rozells
As a child, I loved the Gem and Mineral Society. They have a building at Balboa Park in San Diego. It’s got the same adobe design as the...
Jun 19, 20222 min read


moon jelly half evaporated on the sand by Dylan Davies
it looked like lace underwear on the rocks “is that a jellyfish” you turn to me front teeth wedged into a Sandringham rock and you said...
Jun 15, 20221 min read


Sweet and Silent by Kristina T. Saccone
I kick my legs in the shopping cart until Mom hands me a warm cookie from the bakery. The weekly trip to the grocery store means crinkly...
Jun 12, 20221 min read


Slugged by Annie Cowell
Found, flaccid, amongst my greens, I scooped you on the shovel’s tip and lobbed you over the wall. Repulsive as a toddler with a snotty...
Jun 8, 20221 min read


As Fast as She Can by Janna Miller
The open road starts with a gifted car, decorative flowers spray-painted in a fluorescent-bright parking lot. A girl laughs as drips run...
Jun 5, 20221 min read


A Raindrop's Purpose by Tejaswinee Roychowdhury
The raindrop has dived 6500 feet. His destination—a diseased mango leaf. The raindrop does not dwell on wasted grandiose; he knows his...
Jun 1, 20221 min read


Ghost Talk by Jared Povanda
I love the bench’s broken legs, the white bone of metal underneath the red paint. Here is an elegant decline into new spring weeds, into...
May 29, 20222 min read


Two Poems by Rebecca Dempsey
Country garden mosquitos skate over decay translucent greens marble murky concrete surfaces end papering the end betraying stagnant mud...
May 25, 20221 min read


Ending by Natasha Bonfield
I don’t feel well, my mother says. She looks past the edge of the cliff where the sea would meet the sky, if there was a sea anymore. But...
May 22, 20223 min read


Caterpillar by Jean Velasco
Jean Velasco is a writer, EFL teacher, and translator from Naarm (Melbourne). Her work has appeared in Kill Your Darlings, Overland,...
May 18, 20221 min read


Two CNFs by Sam Moe
October Ocean I don’t get out of bed until I become so sick of researching jellyfish stings that the navy comforter starts to feel like a...
May 15, 20226 min read


Plummet by Emily Benson
I leap from the edge of the marble quarry. Through the woodsmoke I fall; through the sea of stars beyond your eyes; through the rain as I...
May 11, 20221 min read


Chlorine Kiss by Holly Hagman
The summer air is hot and damp as the sun disappears behind the faded fence posts in the shadows of the backyard. I revel in the sounds:...
May 8, 20222 min read


Three Poems by Kate Strong Stadt
versus/verse endings / beginnings / no things / all things / losing weight / losing mass / losing being / finding your feet / finding the...
May 4, 20222 min read


Plan for Going to a Music Festival with Generalized Anxiety Disorder by Annie Marhefka
If you ask a person without generalized anxiety disorder how they plan for a music festival, they say things like: “Wear layers in case...
May 1, 20223 min read


Two Poems by McCaela Prentice
HONEYMOON everything smells like honeysuckle at the wedding and I think what it must be to love like leaving a tab open or a thrown...
Apr 27, 20221 min read


Brown girl in the circus by Swetha Amit
Those curious eyes. Their scrutiny. The gaze follows me as I walk to my desk. The teacher announces my arrival. The new girl in fifth...
Apr 24, 20222 min read


Medusa by Yue Chen
The black iris dribbling down the fencepost. Don’t lie to me—I know you’ve seen it, too, soft moss & wet carpet of autumnal blood. Don’t...
Apr 20, 20221 min read


Skin by Alyson Tait
Her skin was gray, hidden among the shallow water and rocks. Its smooth texture slid underneath the grains of sand, swimming with each...
Apr 17, 20222 min read


Three Poems by Samari Zysk
the birds, the birds for aster, what i think of around you – wings rushing up in a massive unfolding, reshaping. we all relearn as adults...
Apr 13, 20223 min read
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