"Autumn Camping" by Kushal Poddar
Everyone has those travel bags. The doors of the car opens near the river. A bow boat plays a long lone note on the chordophone water....
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Jan 11 min read
"The church joke" by Grant Shimmin
(South Africa, circa 1980) The laughter surrounded us Each member of the audience chronically infected as the joke plunged on towards its...
Jan 11 min read
"high school: a retrospective" by Adele Nwankwo
high school: a retrospective for emily open and inchoate: we soaked it up: rap lyrics, e-cigarettes, instagram, always-wars: passive...
Jan 16 min read
"In the Limen, You", "Apropos or No (Ekphrastic on Deborah Remington’s Apropos..." by Koss
In the Limen, You In the limen you kept me between land and a wormy sea, What’s App green, always poised on the horizon of creamy notes,...
Dec 12, 20231 min read
"ars poetica, marked ‘TBD’" by W.C. Perry
W.C. Perry (they/them) is a writer from Chillicothe, Ohio. Their work has appeared in Meat for Tea, GRIFFEL, Taco Bell Quarterly, Night...
Dec 12, 20231 min read
"命運" by Sophia Lekeufack
命運 (mìngyùn) — the chinese translation of the english word “fate” The moon melted in my arms so I took her place in the sky. And soon my...
Dec 12, 20232 min read
"Affliction", "How Vicious, How Cruel", & "Stinging Nettle" by Sadee Bee
Affliction An echo chamber of endless voices– feeding delusions–you say–I live in–live with. Of what kind–I am not certain. Only you can...
Dec 12, 20232 min read
"Prayer", "Apocalypse" & "Auspicious Evening" by Mozid Mahmud
Prayer Mahfuza, your body is my rosary I observe you and my prayer is done In any prayer other than yours My body is not cowed in such...
Dec 12, 20231 min read
"Mnemosyne’s Curse" by Charlie Brice
Your wings so fast you blur across my yard. Your body no more than an inch long, a blend of bee and moth, though neither bee nor moth....
Dec 12, 20231 min read
"murmuration" & "where to find the sweetest mango" by J. R. Wilkerson
murmuration i drew a bead, wings of carnival glass plumage, he summoned a cloudburst of starlings for his eulogy where to find the...
Dec 12, 20231 min read
"Hecate" & "The day I went back" by Alexandra Fössinger
Hecate All this happens on my pillow – here travellers lay down their dreams, asking me to break them open. And I do, spread them out on...
Dec 12, 20232 min read
"high speed chase" by w v sutra
when hollywood got off the phone some days before he found the nerve to take his gun to bed wanting to be already lying down we had...
Dec 12, 20231 min read
"Baggage" by Zakaylah Shyanne
I admit, there's nowhere left to bury you I've never been good at graveyards, at leaving what's dead behind there are so many corpses...
Dec 12, 20232 min read
"Playground", "On The Edge" & "Heavens Open" by Melanie Joy
Playground I lie In a basket swinging, looking at the clouds, feeling a chilblain of sun on my face. Watching an Irish flag wave its...
Dec 12, 20232 min read
"Remnants of You" by Shruthi Senthilnathan
I think of you more than I need to. I don't know how to make it stop. When I try to write, I find myself bursting with stories of you -...
Nov 26, 20231 min read
"The New", "Scrub", "Fade" & "You Ask If I Want Children" by James Croal Jackson
The New If someone jumped I’d jump into the warm whatever of mid- May I’d not leap as the maneuver’s overused– I understand these liminal...
Nov 26, 20232 min read
"dangerous breed", "other people", & "channeling the baddie" by J. Archer Avary
DANGEROUS BREED i was mauled by a dangerous breed in the Burger King carpark left me maimed, disfigured for life may as well been a...
Nov 26, 20231 min read
"A Murder of Crows" by Alicia Hilton
“The pied au gratin is magnificent,” the waiter caws. “What sort of foot?” the husband squawks. “Free-range, organic,” the waiter caws....
Nov 26, 20232 min read
"I Am Not Chewed Gum!" by Britney Garcia
At the tender age of 6 The pastor I saw every Sunday- The one with a booming voice And a blinding Cheshire grin- Spoke from a...
Nov 26, 20232 min read
"Collector’s Item" by Dani Brokaw
The license plate on the garage wall once belonged to a farmer named Harold who suffered from hemorrhoids and didn’t love his wife. Every...
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