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O by Wendy Newbury
They appeared in kaleidoscope colors, in the form of Siamese fighting fish, gliding about the room, performing graceful pirouettes. She’d...
Apr 10, 20222 min read


songs for swallowing rocks to by Clement Obropta
without my therapist telling me to do so i realized that this whole “being sad and borderline suicidal and hopelessly in love” thing was...
Apr 6, 20221 min read


A Girl, a Nun, and a Principal Walk into a Cafeteria by Sara Dobbie
Sounds like a joke, right? Girl walks into the cafeteria, the seniors by the door laugh at her. It’s out-of-uniform day, so everyone is...
Apr 3, 20222 min read


anatomy of a six and a half year old fox by JY Kim
Inspired from Fantastic Mr. Fox perhaps poverty was not what confined me to a life of sewage in the foundations that i destroyed with...
Mar 30, 20221 min read


Six Lipsticks by Slawka G. Scarso
Avon Berry Nice Your first lipstick is a gloss and tastes of strawberries. The moment you apply it, you start to lick, lick, lick, till...
Mar 27, 20223 min read


Birds at the Feeder by Carol Casey
Junco, Cardinal blue, red flitting at the feeder in the swaying, cedar, sombre evergreen winter-clad. They flutter between branches, red,...
Mar 23, 20221 min read


Eve by Katie Holloway
The globe of the fruit glistened before her, an orb of promise and potential, of passion, power and something she couldn’t yet name, but...
Mar 20, 20221 min read
a thicket of weeds by nat raum
nat raum (b.1996) is a queer disabled artist and writer currently working towards their mfa at the university of baltimore. their work is...
Mar 16, 20221 min read


Playing With Sticks by Pete Sheild
All our arbor ancestors arrived long before her house was built. Long before any of these houses were built. We went about our seasons...
Mar 13, 20223 min read


Three Poems by A. Rabaduex
after the death of a neighbor kid, I think of Charlotte's Web in morning sun a spider meditates along its lattice next to my bench no...
Mar 9, 20222 min read


Un café by Sabina Y. Wong
Today reminds me of my first time. That day, the sky was gray, where strong breezes made my neighbor's tall bushes undulate like we were...
Mar 6, 20224 min read


Poissonnier by Stephanie Parent
How much must you scorn yourself To desire to cleave yourself In two And hope someone will notice The new creature you’ve become? Or...
Mar 2, 20221 min read


Lying Not Lying by Pat Foran
We’re playing one-on-one in the driveway and my friend says he knows me and I must have had a reason to want the Believe In Music — 22...
Feb 27, 20221 min read


aubade after migraine cluster by Leela Raj-Sankar
& amazingly, after four days spent veering desperately away from the light, there is still jazz playing in the kitchen. still dinner to...
Feb 23, 20221 min read


Natural Disaster by Nadja Maril
She looked down at her spotted legs and imagined others examining her body when she died. Discarded. Laid out on a lab table or still in...
Feb 20, 20221 min read


Passing Through Truth and Consequence, NM by Kate Delany
Thoreau went into the woods to confront the essential facts of life but I’ve been there too many times, too close to home, all those...
Feb 16, 20222 min read


Love in Fast Forward by Tori Hicks
Eggos fresh from a concealed toaster, warm and soft in your palms. A delicacy. Curled up in soft, oversized sweatpants and a ratty green...
Feb 9, 20221 min read


Waves by Matthew McGuirk
A cool April morning isn’t the beach of my childhood. The bite of the air doesn’t match the warm sun; the low tide showing white eyes...
Feb 6, 20224 min read


How to Disappear Completely by Jowell Tan
First: the skin. Epidermis. Hypodermis. I remove it gently to preserve it in one piece, whereupon I fold it neatly like I would a jacket...
Jan 30, 20222 min read


Thin Ice by Victoria Buitron
By the time I’m dropped off, the sun is still obscured by clouds, a shrivel of dim light making it an overcast day—so dreary even the...
Jan 23, 20224 min read
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