BANDO
by Starr Davis On a dead night in March, my lover tells me a story that is not mine to tell. The other night the cops found a man’s body...
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Searching for Toes
by Abigail Peabody You are in fifth grade, sitting next to Sarah Murphy on the school bus, and she tells you she is wearing a B-cup bra....
13 min read
If I'll Return
by Gabriel Rogers Ryan and Kalev and I sit on Ryan’s back porch in Jocoro drinking Regia beer in gold cans. We’re going over material for...
9 min read
Dirty Fingers
by Diane Payne It’s hot and humid but I’m determined to pull some weeds while I look at the clouds and wonder if they’ll finally bring...
1 min read
Turtle Breath
by Karuna Eberl After a hurricane, life is sepia-toned. Lawns are dead. Trees are leafless. Roads are covered in debris, and anything...
3 min read
HISTORY OF PAINTING
by Brandon Shimoda When my mother was pregnant with me, she took a class on color theory. The class was at California State University...
8 min read
The Black Paragraphs
by Adrian Potter 1. Sometimes, we die of such blackness, after becoming a smudge on the margins. Slice right through layers of scar...
4 min read
Our Stories Grow in their Own Time: On (not) Writing about Trauma
by Lisa D. Chavez (This was originally a talk at a panel discussion from the AWP Conference 2021, titled “Difficult Muses and Damaged...
7 min read
WE ARE ALL WORKING FROM HOME ANYWAY
by Ploi Pirapokin I woke up on my thirty-third birthday, shaken by my surgeon at 4 a.m. “Congratulations on surviving your appendectomy!...
7 min read
百感交集
by Jennifer Tseng Once upon a time, I floated within my mother’s sea. I’d never seen a book or a person suffering. I’d never seen...
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Peregrination to the Antithetical Sound of a Bird Smashing Into a Window
by Chris Moore A man working on a construction site right outside of my apartment window just had his hand crushed
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Haunted
by Jennifer Manalili
The house that sits on 4344 Marcia Court in San Diego is a fake.
A phantom house.
8 min read
ERASURE
by Casandra Lopez
SHIRAAAW’AXNE (I SPEAK )
It is evident that if allowed to roam at pleasure, their early extinction is inevitable
5 min read
On Seventeen in Appalachia
by Rachel M. Hanson
I stepped out of the house at dusk, still able to see shrub oaks thinned out for winter,
3 min read
A La Loro Morte
by Heidi Czerwiec
I’m a mushroom hunter. In order to find mushrooms, I need familiarity with what they feed on.
4 min read
Producing Pearl Harbor: Militourism, Memory, and Colonial Curations of Space
by Paxon Balthazar Kalāhikiola Chang
The H-1 spans from West to East O’ahu, contouring the Leeward side of the island
18 min read
Ancestor of Fire
by Aaron A. Abeyta
I wish to be an ancestor of fire and how flames came to be, an ancestor of particular slants and dances of light wherein
5 min read
The Voice of the Land
by Susan Olding
In the early 1990s, as a recent transplant from downtown Toronto to Eastern Ontario—more or less due north of Syracuse,
7 min read
Transitive Functions
by Nehal El-Hadi
The first Arabic-language play to be staged in Toronto as part of a theatre’s regular season was a double-bill about the
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