On his way to the liquor store, Connor Lick rubbed his bald head and felt for ingrown hairs. He almost never shaved more than once a day for fear of nicking his tender skin. Because, […]
Boohoo you were born in a cult. (Nate Hoil)
The alien cult hacks your cellphone camera as the air conditioners keep your future corpse from spoiling. I hope you like soaking in marinated space. You are going to spin over flames on a stick. […]
Singing and Screaming and Silence (Ai Jiang)
What is the differencebetween singing and screaming,when the foreign lands we sing ofpush us out and leave usdrowning and screaming in the water? What is the differencebetween screaming and singing,when the words of our mother […]
Some Rooms Are Just Not Going to Work (Scott Mitchel May)
So get this, some motherfucker in some motherfucking room told me I was motherfucking allergic, ALLERGIC, to motherfucking alcohol; and the only motherfucking thing I have to say about that is that that motherfucker is […]
Technically Trespassing (Shaemus Spencer)
You were dying for a long time,practically since you were bornbones twisted up all funny,balloon joints mostly metal by age eighteen.Wasn’t much you could do about it. People called you shitheadjunkie. I didn’t see it […]
Linger (Jaya Wagle)
On winter weekend mornings, my sister and I hauled four woolen razais, bound in white muslin—our backs bent with the weight and the breadth and the length—out to the balcony of our house. We spread […]
God (Danielle Chelosky)
I wait for you to come to the door. I used to count how many seconds it took for you to get to the bottom of the stairs. It was around 36, or maybe half […]
Couplets for the United States in 2020 (Charlotte VanWerven)
Make a cathedral of 2020 andI’ll show up to confess I didn’t vote in 2016. I’ve neversaid that out loud. Fuck, I’ve never said that to anyone. My penance is to forgive myself, and that will […]
Hand Me The Speculum (Dana Guth)
I too have stolen vitamin capsules from the grocery store and the bruised-up sky shows its handlit with grease— With wisps of frog in my languageI tear through the park and attempt to make space for god […]
Rejection Letters 