Bad Things

Sweet Dreams, Hannah Elizabeth High The helicopter noise your car makes when you open the windows on the highway, The static on the radio, The ringing in your ears. Your lies that drip from your mouth like tar.   The…

Categories: Poetry, Volume VIII

washington, d.c.

Flickering Strings of Love, Paul Knight i see the guiding vision warping, changing “we stand in solidarity with sex workers’ rights movements”  becomes  “we stand in solidarity with all those exploited for sex and labor” a lone trans pride flag,…

Categories: Poetry, Volume VIII

Rue du Chameau

Golgi, Soren Carlson-Donohue “Don’t slouch, Gazelle, you look like an alley cat.”  Sister’s chidings are lost on me now as I sit on our steps. Her steps. My steps now. I am alone. When did Sister become Bride become Mother?…

Categories: Fiction, Volume VIII

Breathless

Do You See It, Mommy?, Hannah Elizabeth High I. Back then we were just bodies. We would watch Cosmos on Netflix and wrestle on the couch, knocking over empty beer bottles with our eyes closed. Sometimes, Jackson would pause to…

Categories: Nonfiction, Volume VIII