The Art of Birds
Sioux Falls Mill, Benjamin Etten Cam’s father is a miner. His large hands are defined with rings of dark beneath his nails, rings Cam hears echoed in his father’s…
Sioux Falls Mill, Benjamin Etten Cam’s father is a miner. His large hands are defined with rings of dark beneath his nails, rings Cam hears echoed in his father’s…
Number Five, Hannah Kucharzak [Trigger Warning: Depictions of Animal Abuse] Cherry tomatoes grew on the side of the Strayford’s house, near the driveway but sheltered from the cars and the gravel…
Excerpt from The A Bao A Qu, Zoë Goehring [Trigger Warning: Depictions of Body Gore] DAUGHTER It is morning. She remembers because when the day is bright, the linoleum tiles shine…
Library, Brittany Whiteman [Trigger Warning: Graphic Depictions of Sexual Assault] In the night, there will be a sound like a beating heart and it will be your own. In the bunk…
Persephone, Esther Tang When I think about 1945, I think about peaches. Sweet and fuzzy with a fat, brown pit smack in the center. I remember biting into a…
Chalkboard, Brendan Hunt The graffiti scribbled into the desks of the library intone different levels of cryptic messages. Suck a dick! well that one’s clear. A more delicate hand…
War is Over, Ernest Volynec For what we knew to be our second date We went to go see some spoken word poet the campus had brought in. For…
A Meal of Crayons, Bryan Rubin It is human nature to disobey. Refusing to follow orders is treason, but refusing to follow one’s ideology is treason all the same. The…
Blue, Linnea Schurig Dana Scully had copper hair and wasn’t afraid of God or strangeness, but Gillian Anderson’s hair is blonde so maybe I’m not really sure who it…