My lizard brain knows it’s beer he’s sipping. Instinct. But soon can and person become indistinguishable—metal and beard, the leather face beneath, his stony eyes […]
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“Lines” by Jorielle Pablo
Before capturing this photo, I was fascinated by the alignment of the cranes and how they peek through linked cables. Initially, when I think of “lines” I see boundaries, borders, constraints […]
“Demands and Impulses” by Catherine Hull
SCENE 1 An office. DANIEL and OLIVIA sit in opposite cubicles. A photocopier sits to the side of Olivia. Daniel stands hesitantly and knocks on the top of the partition separating their two cubicles […]
“elsewhere” by Amanda Wan
summer has a way of making me feel small and hard. everything that hurts does so more slowly. somehow i become my migraine […]
“Wreck of the Daffodil” by John Connell
I don’t want to open my eyes. I don’t remember last night just yet, but I can hear waves rolling in and if I move my hands, I can feel them dragging across sand. The tide laps at my feet. I don’t want to open my eyes, but it seems I don’t have a choice […]
“When Fishing With A Can Of Worms” by Shivangi Sikri
Go fishing. Open your can of worms. Stick a hook in the “I promise” note, dated 7th September ‘16. Cast the line. Go deep. Reel it in. Remember the first note she asked you to sign. Remember how […]
“Who You Are, Who You… ‘The Harlem Dancer’” by Daisy Couture
How do we conceptualize our world? Is it true to reality or do our histories become muddy in the remembering? As humans, idealization is irresistible. We idealize time periods […]
“’Contemporary’ Urban London and Popular Festivity in Ben Jonson’s ‘Bartholomew Fair’” by Frances Chen
In The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson, Mary Lamb outlines three distinct conceptualizations of “popular culture” […]
“Electromagnetic Myth: ‘White Noise’ and the Language of Distortion” by Noah Levy
Prominent American linguists Benjamin Lee Whorf and Edward Sapir claimed that language affects worldview. As a key proponent of linguistic relativity, Whorf asserted that differences between languages, particularly in the treatment of categories such as colour and time […]
“It’s A Joke” by Camille Lemire
It’s A Joke Nonfiction by Camille Lemire “You know what you’re doing, you … you slutty pirate hooker.” It’s a joke, I pray, instantly applying a Band-Aid to the words Daniel shoots at me from across the crowded house party. The rest of the packed living room vanishes as he watches me watching him
“’The Blood is the Life!’ Monstrous Inheritance in Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’” by Brenna Goodwin-McCabe
The act of bleeding is fundamentally transgressive, as it reveals what is suppressed, inherited, and predisposed: our mortality and genetics […]
“things that fall” by Christina Daudlin
(january) snowflakes you for her and me for you (february) confetti made of tiny hearts (march) cherry blossom petals […]
“Begat” by Brenna Goodwin-McCabe
Boiler maker blood popper beat scraper button pusher Badland butchers sourcing downcast trudgers — publicize powerhouses […]
“Why Women Run” by Rachel White
Kilometer 29: my legs are smashing into the pavement. Left foot, right foot. Methodical. Easy pace. Stay relaxed […]