It was Thursday evening, and they sat at the little table in the kitchen drinking beer while the spaghetti boiled and the canned sauce warmed up. “Do you remember Goodnight Moon?” “No.” “You didn’t read […]
Author: Lindsay Hargrave
god forbid (Anisha Narain)
god forbid i have a body god forbid i show its lines, its curves, its stretchmarks: yaw / pitch god forbid it transforms grows, revels in its own glory god forbid it lets its mere […]
Wolfjaw (Elizabeth Muller)
I will live and die for the ocean, but goddamn if there isn’t something about a mountain stream. It’s not so much that the mountains make me feel small but that the world seems bigger […]
the thousand times to remember the rising and falling of the sun (Nosakhare Collins)
before he died my father told mei’d make the monster that would kill meso i know this was someone else’s deathhappily chanting into my feet hoping to devour mein seconds. i recognize the plight smile,perhaps it thought i […]
With Three Black Olives (Travis Cravey)
Daddy didn’t like spending money in restaurants. A waste, he told us, when we have food at home. I mostly ate fast food when I visited my grandparents. But, on strange and wonderful occasions, my […]
Lines on the Road: A Map of My Fears (Courtney Skaggs)
Carcinophobia I realize I can’t run from myself, but I cancel an appointment with the breast clinic so that I can go on a road trip. I already know I have a “palpable, previously identified […]
ON DENYING THE HORRIBLE REALITY OF BEING A CORPORATE PENCIL-PUSHER WHO KNOWS THAT =VLOOKUP IS A CROSS-FUNCTIONAL EXCEL TOOL THAT’S ONLY USEFUL FOR SUPPRESSING ALL HOPES AND DREAMS (Shawn Berman)
and perhaps i should learn to only focus on things that truly make me happy.like the first christmas we spent together,wine drunk off gas station roséeating mcdonald’s naked on our futon,just relaxing,not really doing anything […]
Wanda (Linda McMullen)
The student population of Thoreau Middle School – all 868 of us – failed to identify an appropriate social category for Wanda, so we mostly shunned her. She threw temper tantrums well into the seventh […]
Go Back to School, Greta (Sahana Ahmed)
FameShameSchwarzeneggercan get you a Tesla 3But Twitter won’t turbochargeyour trumped-up monopolyDon’t blame the kings, Gretahot lava bombs and heresyGo make some friends, GretaQuit tallying-dallying[…]
