You’re Not From Around Here

Rust Rorschach, Timothy Embertson “You are excused. If you don’t know certain things, I know you are not from around here,” Dementria Martinez told the man politely.  She could tell by the odd expression on his face that something, probably…

Categories: Fiction, Volume X

i long for the me i was before i met you

Skin Mask Replica, Hunter Louis i am drinking earl grey tea even though it is slightly bitter because i miss my mother and she always drank it at home and my bone bruise is making sure i know that just because…

Categories: Nonfiction, Volume X

Dream Girl

Poppies and WD-40, Chloe Moulin Mania tastes like a Monster Smells like cigarette butts Bleach gasoline And gripping the clutch Infidelity shows up too Grows in Tindr swipes right Purging sweating Lemme take a bite Avoidance: to hide in bright lights…

Categories: Poetry, Volume X

Daddy Issues

Whispers, Emily Bryn Sylvia Plath would call me a spic. In the light  my eyebrows almost pass for a Spaniard’s. In the darkness,  Pablo Neruda would call me a gringa. What do you call  a Mexican poet that doesn’t write poems…

Categories: Poetry, Volume X

Search History

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Categories: Poetry, Volume X

A Shadowy Figure

Demonology, Jack Hoye I lay down on my bed and pull a photo out from under my pillow. A family photo – the last one too. I close my eyes and suddenly find myself back in my parent’s house just weeks…

Categories: Fiction, Volume X

The Shield Maidens of Hafrsfjord

Bright Nights City Lights, Jackie Phuong Ta Part One TW/SA The Northmen are all standing and sitting together in the hall of the great Jarl Thigurd Sigurdsson to await his announcement of the summer raids. The hearth is blazing as it…

Categories: Fiction, Volume X