VOLUME II
My Old Beans
Chocolate Eaters, Benjamin Rowe [Trigger Warning: Depictions of Body Horror] It’s hot. Blazing. Arizona, dead middle of summer. I am sweating. I unzip my pants and fling them aside. They…
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VOLUME IIField Poem
Winter, Beth Reynolds Just before waking I dream the blind cow has slipped and fallen down, her belly split a clean barrel, a diagram. Inside her heart shakes and…
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VOLUME IINorth Country Lessons
Bonemask, Colette Butfiloski The North Country wind blows through the yard as you lace up my gloves, then your gloves. Time to teach you how to be a man.…
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VOLUME IITranslations of Wolves
Monsters, Lauren Young Smith 1. It was a war like any other. One night the village danced to the time of the fiddle; the next there were only…
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VOLUME IIGiacomo Died When I Was One
Landscape #2, Sun Lee I. I met you once on my windowsill The summer I was six. Laughing in a dream, you Told me to be a good girl…
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VOLUME IILesson on Learned Meaning
Winter Afternoon, Evan McGrew “Respiratory!” he yelled. It was loud in the bar, and so he was yelling. “What?” “Respiratory— it is a gorgeous word!” I considered this…
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VOLUME IISleeping Gas for Fruit Flies
Closed Circuit, Marielle Saums [Trigger Warning: Animal Dissection; Death Mention] My high school biology teacher can tell the sex of a fruit fly as it floats past her head. “Male. Female.…
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VOLUME IIAlzheimer’s
Sulphur Sky, Clare Arentzen [Trigger Warning: Molestation of Minor Mention] You couldn’t live in that town and escape the steel mill. When they graduated from Hopewell High, a disappointment of its…
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VOLUME IISarajevo Rose
Sarajevo Rose, Spencer Burke The call to prayer sounds more mournful in Sarajevo than in Istanbul or Beirut. Walking through the old city—a disorder of cobbled lanes and bazaars…
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VOLUME IISans Maman
Home Sweet Home, Colin Crane [Trigger Warning: Depictions of Death; Natural Disaster] I am in Mme Guillaume’s class. She’s talking about Papa Dessalines and how he tore the white out of…
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VOLUME IIStanding in a Picasso Exhibit in 3 Parts
Happy National Morticians’ Day, Sarah Parsons Part 1: Picasso reveals. Cast: Genevieve: slender spectator with a silver scarf Picasso: invisible artist with visible visions and thoughts Chorus: art historians…
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VOLUME IIBuzzcut McWaykenbaik Saves the Day
Jim From Outsiders, Max Basch After bluntfast, the idea enters Brandon “Buzzcut” McWaykenbaik’s head to meditate. Though Buzzcut quietly gives himself credit for the notion, it has more likely…
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VOLUME IIWhat Did You Expect?
Through the Windowpane, Rebecca Jones [Trigger Warning: Depictions of Imagined Domestic Violence; Woman Experiencing Forceful Lack of Bodily Autonomy] Beth comes home that day and tells him she has kissed a…
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VOLUME IIThe Glory Herself
Little, Emma Webster [Trigger Warning: Domestic Abuse Mention] Frankie’s thinkin to himself, Man, I need some new friends. I mean, do you think poor Frankie stands a chance against this girl?…
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VOLUME IFish Hanging
Fish Hanging, Tess Brown-Lavoie [Trigger Warning: Death Mention] When she was told that Charlie was dead, my mother fell limp and gasping to the earth. My father—who had answered the phone—was…
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VOLUME IGrandma Jesus
Untitled, Adam Chambers Escaping the humidity at last, I collapse on the sofa, dead weight melting into the cool white leather. She brings me water and sits on the…
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VOLUME ITwilight of the Libraries
Untitled, Benjamin Etten In a famous episode of the television show, The Twilight Zone, Henry Bemis, “a bookish little man whose passion is the printed page but who is conspired against…
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VOLUME IThe Things I Have Been
Blue Line, Emily Gray Tareila Ever since we marched with tube socks and Trapper Keepers into kindergarten, we have been urged to be who we want to be, to…