by Courtney Young
I got my period two days ago but tell him I’m pregnant anyway. We’re lying half-naked on Tiffany blue sheets, brittle and distant from no ... Read More.
by Susan Dashiell
The heavy door slammed like the hatch of a submarine before descending under water. Anticipating the inevitable scrutiny, I would deal wit... Read More.
by Georgette Eva
Tokador.
When I say the word, there’s hesitation in my voice that I can’t help as soon as the first consonant leaves my tongue. The... Read More.
by Callum Angus
Jenny’s first change, like everybody else’s, was expected. After the requisite meetings with the school’s gender counselor and milk cra... Read More.
by Sharanna Brown
When I got the phone call the third time Daveonte was shot, I knew it was the last. Still, I held my breath. I bit my lip and my leg s... Read More.
by D.A. Navoti
Author’s Note: This is an excerpt from a memoir-in-progress titled One Pima Pilgrim, which chronicles pilgrimages to my tribal motherland thr... Read More.
By Noelle Marie Falcis
In our mythology, there is an origin story about the goddess of the sea, who lives in a place beneath the land, synony... Read More.
In the Beginning I Am Not
your body.
& so I hear
in the beginning I am not
12 & I hear hips swinging a wide bridge
a chorus swelling in the bass
of my ... Read More.
Female While in Mexico
by Paulette Jonguitud
Hers is a country of dead people. All those graves scattered over the hill, the white crosses, the ange... Read More.
Outline of What I Want to Say to My Sister
by Christine Pakkala
I.
A. On the phone, you tell me you were frozen, then brought back to life. The fre... Read More.
What Do You Know About One-Night Stands?
by Joanna Acevedo
You will be twenty or twenty-one or twenty-two, no younger than nineteen, no older than... Read More.
The Enigma
by Tara Rose Stromberg
I was looking for Samuel Bernstein's novel, Lulu, at The Strand, a giant stack of books teetering in the crook of ... Read More.
It's me, Mom.
by Bianca Ng
My parents gave up a comfortable life in China so that their children could have better opportunities. When they came to ... Read More.
On Race and Small Talk With the Neighbors
by Dionne Custer Edwards
We found our home driving through the neighborhood adjacent to where I used to li... Read More.
Incel "Empowerment"
by Sarah Madges
I have spent the last couple of weeks surveying online discussion forums populated by self-identified “incels,” ... Read More.
