PrEP Kabuki

Planet, by Karolina Klonowska     When burial. When banquet. When meadow & its scroll of frailty. When viewing anatomical cross-sections of my lymphatic system, I imagine a finch blooding  toward an elsewhere  & I imagine it one thousand times. When,…

Categories: Poetry, Volume VIII

Crude Oil

Pins and Needles, Kamron Williams     the Earth didn’t have a cunt, so the men dug one out for her. they were delighted by the black gold ejaculate, and proud to make her squirt. About the Author Hazelle Lerum ·…

Categories: Poetry, Volume VIII

Flotsam

Defense Mechanism 3, Elizabeth Ellenwood     Picture these personal prompts like reporters, microphones to my face, asking me, So what do you do? What do you want from life? Over here, Franziska—what are you passionate about? I write, Am having…

Categories: Nonfiction, Volume VIII

Keeping Up Appearances

Light and Dark, Grace Long Harold Orwin was well respected in the anarcho-punk community. And understandably so. He wore black denim jackets with anti-government patches, beaten boots with worn cotton laces, and a DIY flannel bumflap. Each of these pieces of…

Categories: Fiction, Volume VIII

Song in the Shape of the West Bank

On the Edge of the Falls, Sarah Moore     This is a new language in which home makes no sound.   Violence whimpers his tune, hollow,    and inside, story-caked hands push muddied    earth into mounds tall enough to…

Categories: Poetry, Volume VIII

The Kitchens

Grandma’s Cupcake Stand, Jessica Ashworth   When my children think back to the mother of their childhood, what will come to mind?  Smiling in the kitchen, the stereo plays mommy lullabies in the form of Hobo Johnson or the Killers. Maybe…

Categories: Nonfiction, Volume VIII