A quick note from M.M. Carrigan (Editor Grande Supreme of TBQ): Sometimes we tell a collective story. Rejection Letters tells a story of outsiderness, rejection. These stories exist outside TBQ, outside RL, outside any journal. […]
If I Am A Fool (Sean Ennis)
I was watching the Impeachment when the dog walked through the room and it occurred to me that golden retrievers are supposed to be nice. That dogs understand and appreciate they’ve been rescued is not […]
The Xi Movement (Karen Steiger)
So I talked to Alan last night,for the first time in a long time.You heard that his wife left him, right?She joined a cult.Which is kind of hilarious.I mean, it’s very serious and sadand a […]
Write About Race (Gauraa Shekhar)
What they want me to write about: how, like every Indian family, mine harbored hope for a fair-skinned daughter. How, they thought of the names in preparation: Arjuni, Divyatha, Gauri. Names, that, in God-fearing Sanskrit, […]
The Haunted Omentum (Katie Piper)
My abdomen is haunted; riddled with girl corpses, none of them fully developed. They gaggle around in my omentum – the slippery curtain that hangs like an apron, sailing over my intestines. They cackle and […]
Mermaid Girlfriend (M. S.)
You said the sea called out to you. That the water held magic and you had to be a part of that beauty. I didn’t want to seem like a schmuck. Dark clouds were filling […]
Dear Vivian (Sarah Little)
Dear Vivian, I am not you. You are not me. Not any longer. We spent wasted so much time being the same entity. Your mystique was oh-so-cool, so mysterious, like you’d force people around you […]
behind glass, glenn gould’s chair
canted, wood worn like copper plate and cushionless, the boon companion— over even the muse and his canon— sits full sung, with the wurlitzer toccata smeared across its keys by breath wandering, attempt at dialogue. […]
Rejection Letter: Bridget Lillethorup
Dear Catholic Upbringing, Thank you so much for your interest in my morals and values, as well as your commitment to my fast-growing inferiority complex and panic-inducing sense of shame. Unfortunately, at this time, I […]
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