Version
by Mia Caruso
It tasted lemony, a smudge of sweet acid on the tip of her tongue, hot from the sun where it had been growing until the moment... Read More.
Please Don’t Make Me Repeat Myself
By Adam Polaski
“You have such a beautiful voice,” the director said guardedly. He sat rigidly on the sofa in my ... Read More.
Simmer
by Ken Brosky
When they come to see the stove, they inhale a simultaneous woosh, the kind of sound that only comes from air moving into the l... Read More.
Repentance
by Kayla Michelle Smith
One Friday each fall, Missionary Baptist girls from all over the state of Mississippi were excused from school to... Read More.
hit and run
Trees living in their skin-smell, Appalachia has no need of my white poet
blouse and ripped jeans. The world as I knew it, gone, white as cotton... Read More.
Jagged Space
by Karen Bell
My sense of what it means to be an American woman, a queer Aries snowflake, shifts every time I leave and return to my ow... Read More.
Genuine Ringers
by Mike Wilson
Julia was a single mom, so she did what she had to do.
“Just put your quilt on the table with the others,” Beth ... Read More.
the door that closes itself
by Avi-Yona Israel
how is it
that you force-fuck
and call us whores
you tell us we only care
about your size, ... Read More.
A Child Testifies, Rage
by Imran Khan
I find the court bundles,
find the judge who
smeared my face with war paint,
fingered my veins for Pakistani valves like
m... Read More.
Lucia
by Alena Dillon
My mom acted like she was just one good fuck away from becoming a millionaire. Every Saturday night she squeezed into ... Read More.
A High School Senior /
a sophomore from art class. could he paint. i kept
his scraps of craft paper
and stray eyelashes in a jewelry box my grandma bough... Read More.
The Invitation
by Joan Li
Mr. Dai called to inform his wife that he would be leaving directly from work to pick their daughter up from the ... Read More.
Chocolate Man
by L. Vocem
I am chocolate man looking at blue man flashing his lights as he stops milk chocolate woman and light cafecito man.
I ... Read More.
By Michelle Nguyen
Dimensions: 14 x 17 in.
Materials used:
Prismacolor colored pencils
Strathmoore Bristol paper
Uni Posca white paint marker
... Read More.