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Month: December 2023

Paralyzed Pole

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Eliza Becker
blue painting with yellow, red, and blue splotches

ELIZA BECKER
Korris winced at the scissors’ first zip. Her ear had never been nicked while having her hair cut professionally, but she felt it to be probable, inevitable…Continue Reading Paralyzed Pole

Falling Apart

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '26, Emily Wykoff
image of leaves forming leaf people

EMILY WYKOFF
Will this love die if unattended? / Abscising our petals, like peonies decaying / Feed for squirrels and worms and everything else / That wants to eat us alive …Continue Reading Falling Apart

Nine Lives of A Cat

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '25, Fahim Zaman
digital art of a cat looking with yellow eyes

FAHIM ZAMAN
Who knew behind the twelve trees’ / ceaseless tears of fiery leaves / and those hundred and one river / coves of green shade there were / only a lone pair of amber eyes?…Continue Reading Nine Lives of A Cat

I’m Sorry, I Need A Moment —

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '25, Gabby Avena
pen sketch of a face screaming

GABBY AVENA
I mean — I need a moment to move through — an image to see with — an orange on an altar, rotting on speedlapse…Continue Reading I’m Sorry, I Need A Moment —

Weathered to Sand

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '27, Alex Womack
drawing of an hourglass against two golden spheres in red shading

ALEX WOMACK
I came to visit today. / Claire told me not to, that it would only hurt me more. But even if my therapist is normally my first opinion, this time I just can’t agree. Why wouldn’t I want to see him?…Continue Reading Weathered to Sand

Choice

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '25, Gracie Rowland
image of two sisters hugging each other. one is in pink, the other in white

GRACIE ROWLAND
Georgiana and I tangled ourselves in each other’s arms on the stairs to the loft. We were sitting in the only place we knew to sit whenever our Mama and Daddy fought….Continue Reading Choice

becomeingto

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '24, Jihyun Paik

JIHYUN PAIK
here; / take before / you, see, behold / extravagance extraordinarily unceasing in splendor / traces lingering without diffusion…Continue Reading becomeingto

I Wanna Show You Someone

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Jorge Rodriguez Jr

JORGE RODRIGUEZ JR
Their father threw a faded quilt in the middle seat where Ulysses would sit. Ulysses developed the habit of wetting himself when he felt the slightest urge to go. …Continue Reading I Wanna Show You Someone

Disappear

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Kaela Liu
image of red liquid falling past five hands reaching against a blue background

KAELA LIU
The five senses: touch, taste, sight, hearing, smelling. These five senses make up how we perceive the world. As we grow up, we accumulate experiences. …Continue Reading Disappear

The Great Peat Bog Body Bonanza of Who Knows When and Who Knows How

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '24, Laura Almeida

LAURA ALMEIDA
It was the beginning of yet another end. It didn’t like this; for one, being an it. There was a scream that resounded through the bubbling bog as it recalled, violently, its true life as a sprawl us and them and I…Continue Reading The Great Peat Bog Body Bonanza of Who Knows When and Who Knows How

Statement of Matthew Ingersoll, Regarding Earthworms

  • Categories: Prose
  • Categories: '24, Leland Culver

LELAND CULVER
I’ve always hated earthworms, you know. Repulsive slimy wriggly little monsters. I know they’re supposed to help turn over the old soil redistribute the nutrients from all the rotting things, but I can’t see them like that…Continue Reading Statement of Matthew Ingersoll, Regarding Earthworms

Roadkill

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '27, Lila Schlissel
image of a body depicting pink organs laid out on red markings

LILA SCHLISSEL
The best thing about having / two eyes wriggling around in your / head like minnows is that they / have already learned to blur / and your retina is cracked and crumbling…Continue Reading Roadkill

Do Zombies Dream of Electric Guitar

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '25, M Lawson
drawing on two corners, one of a finger and the other of an eye

M LAWSON
Up here, on the podium, is our subject’s soul-liver during the first stage of zombification… infection of the brain is a Hollywood lie….Continue Reading Do Zombies Dream of Electric Guitar

the horror inside, beautiful faces

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '25, Mackenzie Dunson
art of a girl looking into the mirror against blue backdrop

MACKENZIE DUNSON
My mother liked to style her hair based on the white magazines, Vogue, Cosmo, the nice ones that she had to get a special subscription for, 5.00 dollars every month and delivered straight to our front door….Continue Reading the horror inside, beautiful faces

Untitled

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '27, Mariam Beshidze

MARIAM BESHIDZE
She sat down at the table with her coffee mug, squeezing it with her little hands and absorbing the warmth that she desperately needed. Under the table her leg swung back and forth erratically. …Continue Reading Untitled

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