Nonfiction, VOLUME V
Rapid
Emerge, Meagan Dwyer [Trigger Warning: Graphic discussion of suicidal ideation and self harm] When I was seventeen, I wanted to die. There was something terrifying about it, more terrifying than the…
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Poetry, VOLUME VBlack Man Floating
Dreamscape II, Meagan Dwyer [Trigger Warning: Depiction of death] “if a man cannot drown in his struggles, at least he can float for a while” black folk be boat be…
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Fiction, VOLUME VIn the Dark
Radioactive Beach Hypothesis Illustration, Elly Call [Trigger Warning: Graphic depictions of injury, death, and cannibalism] Todd shouted as he felt the bike slam back down to the earth, pumping his…
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Fiction, VOLUME VFolding Blankets
Hand, Kaitlyn Fitzgerald [Trigger Warning: Brief mention of a stillbirth] Two bleary, beady eyes were regarding me steadfastly. The mass that framed them, the rounded head of the thing had, one…
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Nonfiction, VOLUME VDebt to Bees
Bee Girl, Kate Mitchell I am the woman bending on a busy sidewalk to scoop up the pests, the one pulling her car over on the 101 freeway to…
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Nonfiction, VOLUME VSloppy
Tiny Bust, Jordan Sommer My mom made Manwiches the night I came out. It was a coincidence, probably, and not because she contemplated the image of her fifteen-year-old son nuzzled…
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Poetry, VOLUME VThe Elder Law Attorney
Overloading, Qintong Li When the old man brought his payment in dimes and hard candies, she hesitated. Peering into his mackerel-blue eyes, she suggested an installment plan. The…
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Nonfiction, VOLUME VSatin
Girlhood, Adira Bennett Today, on an especially beautiful Saturday morning, you run through a list of errands. First grocery shopping, then laundromat, license renewal,…
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Fiction, VOLUME VA Constellation is a Group of Stars That Forms a Pattern
Still Air, Shareefah Pereira Me It was the summer between jump ropes and lip gloss and Dad was a rarity and a giant, often…
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Poetry, VOLUME VAppalachia Heartache
Suffocating Nature, Camelia Rojas For a time I believed in the longevity of a dew-swept skyscape, how the sun-drop suspended itself over hazy blue hills like in my dream…
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Poetry, VOLUME VSomewhere in Mississippi
nuns still teach abstinence in school, written on the blackboard in thick block letters. “Kissing is bad, too,” they tell the sixth graders, who like neither themselves nor each other.…
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Poetry, VOLUME VVirgin Heart
Beach, Jacob Roosa I fear the swell and push of crowds; the incoherent chatter closing in from all sides. I fear looking up from my book and finding someone…
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Nonfiction, VOLUME VNumbers
Lost Time, Erica Lee 2697815320. I dialed it one day in late October, waiting for her to answer, the croaky “Hello” crackling through the receiver after a few dial…
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Poetry, VOLUME VReincarnation
2, Julia Broeker His parents hold him over his brother’s grave, explain how he is his brother born again. It is the miracle of rebirth, renaming, reclamation. The…
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Poetry, VOLUME V
Self-Portrait: Chinese American
Still Air, Shareefah Pereira From the high plains of heaven rises the mighty Heaven Shining. The stretch of her cheeks comes ten red suns, and yet the three-legged crow…
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Fiction, VOLUME VJumping Fences
Fruit Basket Part II, Jordan Sommer Five white, shiny, naked behinds streaked from the barbed wire fence where their clothes hung to the murky tank fifty feet away. The…
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