How to Kill Yourself Slowly

Self-Portrait, Thomas Vause       When you wake up, you will weigh yourself one, two, three times for safe measure. 95.0 lbs, 94.6 lbs, 94.8 lbs. Fat, fat, obnoxiously fat. You will poke at your cheeks where they are…

Categories: Nonfiction, VOLUME VI

Cornbread

cyprus sanicle, Madeline Harpell     She kneaded dough like she was making love.   I would have known this, if I had paid attention. She always made her own bread because she hated high-fructose corn syrup. High fructose corn…

Categories: Poetry, VOLUME VI

Albatross Alone

Untitled, Elise Ketch   Some would say you’d get lonely out in the big darkness with not a soul on board except for the empty husks of the dead. Marty Corpus would say that they’d be wrong. Of course, though,…

Categories: Fiction, VOLUME VI

I Miss You Most

Self-Hatred, Logan Sullivan       when I put the last dish in the drainer, when I light a candle and set it on the coffee table, when I merge onto the freeway. I want to share that quiet, a…

Categories: Poetry, VOLUME VI

Two Years and Two Months

Beauty After the Storm, Rae Clickenbeard     The clock on the stove blinks 12:00a.m., but I know that it’s actually 4:52p.m. I’ve been meaning to reset the clock since the electricity was shut off temporarily a month ago.  “Put…

Categories: Fiction, VOLUME VI