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"Already Gone" by Matthew Freeman
Red said yesterday he wanted to get down and do some real talk. I said okay but I was nervous as hell. “Let me ask you,” he went. “Are...
Apr 11 min read

"Never Warmer Than with You in Juneau" by Jonathan Fletcher
A little bear crawls across the road, straightens itself on small hind legs. From a distance, huddled as one, we watch in parkas that hug...
Apr 11 min read

"Here I Am", "Triangle Sum Thereom", "Living on the Edge of Seen", "Shelter in Place", & "When I Get Home A Package" by Marc Meierkort
Here I Am without warning. Without a coat. I risk getting taken to task over meaning. This makes me feel nervous. Porous like a...
Apr 12 min read

"Broadcasting from the End of the World" & “(It's All) Too Much, But Not Enough" by Andrew Buckner
Broadcasting from the End of the World 1. “America loves to repeat its mistakes — one half the world drowns while the...
Feb 235 min read

"Here Comes That Season" & "After The Fiesta Ends" by Kushal Poddar
Here Comes That Season The stones heat up for a brief period. Their cold heart, beginning to add another layer made of leaves, surface...
Feb 231 min read

"Aural Sex", "Obsolete Sense Memories", "Paper Girl", "Summer's Color Change" & "I'm Not Her" by Nina Miller
Aural Sex Your voice, wraps around me like strong arms holding me tight. My whole body opens to catch each thought as they fall from your...
Feb 232 min read

"I think that nothing magical can be accidental" & "Seussian sonnet for omissions" by Hallie Fogarty
I think that nothing magical can be accidental I’m desperate for affection and attention and I’m convinced every symptom’s gonna kill...
Feb 233 min read

"The Weight of a Name", "Your Suicide was Searing Steam from a Pressure Valve", & "Driving Home from the Festival" by Maudie Bryant
CW: CSA and suicide. These pieces explore themes of trauma, grief, and the burden of memory, confronting the emotional weight of personal...
Jan 262 min read

"Winter Words" by Joseph Lezza
There’s something beautiful about December, as she slinks from the sun. And, we climb to our roofs with cracked knuckles and chapped...
Jan 261 min read

"Thee Countdown" by Joseph Reich
on television to capture you they show you a countdown to christmas a countdown to elections all pretty much interchangeable like some...
Jan 262 min read

"Loading the Truck", "A Thriving Virus", & "The Folly of Being Quenched" by Richard LeDue
Loading the Truck Sweat glistening on my forehead like some family heirloom I've always thought worth more than it truly is, while the...
Jan 261 min read

"Fathers", "Wreck", & "Depression" by Robert Allen
Fathers Like fathers, he wasn’t around much but let’s call that the 70s. When divorces took off. so did dad. To Mexico often enough, or...
Jan 261 min read

"Cult leaders for starters" by Christian Ward
I met a man who swallowed goats whole — horns and all. I know this because he lifted up his pale blue Oxford shirt and pointed to a pair...
Jan 41 min read

"Second generation" "Portrait of a Woman in Bed" "Hokku Written at a Food Market" & "Hokku Spoken Before a Winter Sleep" by Tim Thiện Nguyễn
Tim Thiện Nguyễn (he/him) is a Vietnamese American scientist whose Ph.D. research interrogates how genes shape our face in the womb. He...
Dec 15, 20241 min read

"on what a negroni could taste like", "it’s a terrible life!" & "Michael, I—" by Erica Leslie Weidner
on what a negroni could taste like i think a negroni tastes like sweat / i think a negroni tastes like blood i mean come on it looks like...
Dec 15, 20243 min read

"I ask half a bivalve shell some questions but end up answering the questions myself" by Jane Burn
Do you crave your other half? Yes, when the storms come and the animals have spread themselves far from the croft, out across the dark...
Dec 15, 20242 min read

"The cost of living…" by Poetic Dad
What’s it cost? The cost of living, that is. How many of us are struggling? Why is my life considered valueless? No matter what we do,...
Dec 15, 20242 min read

"famous monsters of film-land" by DJ Wolfinsohn
the last time anyone saw her she was smoking Pall Malls in the back of a town car and ashing into a green glass brick. now, rising from...
Dec 15, 20241 min read

"Driven" & "Absurd Ode" by John Repp
Driven What a strange word “driven” is, none the stranger for being hummed in a dream of driving a DeSoto with three on the column, the...
Dec 15, 20242 min read

"The first time Audrey flies a kite", “Last night”, & "The first time your first child bleeds" by Brian Baker
The first time Audrey flies a kite from a tweet by Audrey Burges Across a tract of wireless sky ...
Dec 2, 20242 min read
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