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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

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

introduction with no end

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '25, mel-arthur
a painting of red and dark blue and blue

MEL ARTHUR
2. / Sometime in late, / i fragment at my being, watch my body turn itself up in the shape of a palm that claws at my feelings, marking my gut with heaps of silence that ever so often bursts into sound….Continue Reading introduction with no end

Toe Rotten

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '24, Mikayah Parsons
a white masked person among white growing mushrooms and pink

MIKAYAH PARSONS
I am just a body— / A body with words inscribed, / With meanings taped over my mouth, / And phrases to my thighs….Continue Reading Toe Rotten

The Maw

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '27, Mike Rosenthal
black and white image of what appears to be a forest, but eerie

MIKE ROSENTHAL
The sorrowful keening of the crowd pierced the clear, dry air on the plateau. They huddled together, staining the dusty ground with their crying and the clear air with their wailing….Continue Reading The Maw

Properiamphimetaphysics

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '25, Priscilla Lee
black and white sketch of bodies falling among a falling star

PRISCILLA LEE
In the beginning, God took the greatest dump of all Time, squeezed time and space through the white hot speck of what would be the universe. …Continue Reading Properiamphimetaphysics

Voided

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Rania Adouim
a picture of a black and white mushroom

RANIA ADOUIM
As a kid, I used to lock myself in the bathroom and try to imagine what death was like…..Continue Reading Voided

Falling Awake

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '25, Sarah Wu

SARAH WU
Waking up is like falling down a rollercoaster. In the crowded amusement park, this is what I tell my brother and mother and father. …Continue Reading Falling Awake

brainrot

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '27, Serin Hwang

SERIN HWANG
some songs make me think of you. / earworms till through my brain matter, / electric guitar leaving earthen grooves in my body. / i retrace lines like i would retrace my steps in an old forest,…Continue Reading brainrot

Twin-Sized Beds, Weather Conundrums, & Starry Smiles

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '27, Siani-Simone Ammons
splotches of yellow blue white colors in a torrent

SIANI-SIMONE AMMONS
Typically, he swipes up & I think he’s a sonnet-eyed Robin Hood. Who/ am I kidding? I am a romantic who believes time intervals between text / messages sent & how quickly he doesn’t respond & how…Continue Reading Twin-Sized Beds, Weather Conundrums, & Starry Smiles

Space for Decay

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Sofia Ahmed
a tree inside a circle with anchors hanging down

SOFIA AHMED

I had to be called home, then dragged when I didn’t comply, to eat something. I was too happy, too alive, how was I supposed to remember that I needed food when I was this content? …Continue Reading Space for Decay

Kingdom of Compost

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '25, Sonia Chajet Wides
a blue-red image of a girl with short hair looking at the viewer

SONIA CHAJET WIDES
Ella loved when you could hear the sound of corn husks at night. Some people wouldn’t be able to distinguish it from the rustling of leaves on shivering trees.
…Continue Reading Kingdom of Compost

A Tick

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Sydney Harris

SYDNEY L. HARRIS
Eyes snap open, gazing up at a white ceiling. You breathe in and out deeply. INHALE EXHALE INHALE EXHALE INHALE EXHALE. It came again — the dream….Continue Reading A Tick

The Great War

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Prose
  • Categories: '26, Sydney Williams
paperprint of a red woman looking at her reflection on a black background

SYDNEY WILLIAMS
Before the Great Self War of Identity, there was simply Sydney. As a young girl, I was an avid reader. I loved getting lost in the worlds of stories and following the adventures of young heroines. …Continue Reading The Great War

Behind the Walls of a Rotting House 

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '25, Tiia McKinney

TIIA MCKINNEY
I look at the house in the center of the neighborhood, / The first house that ever went there, / The house that my parents struggled to build. / My mother’s eyes often flutter in bitter memory …Continue Reading Behind the Walls of a Rotting House 

Unpeel

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '26, Venumi Gamage
a blue bird against green ripples

VENUMI GAMAGE
The edges of my mind are lifting up — / there’s dust and dirt settled in so no matter how hard / I press and smooth my fingers over the peeling perimeter, nothing I do will…Continue Reading Unpeel

To Rot

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '26, Willow Delp
two bottles next to each other on yellow and orange painted background

WILLOW DELP
To rot is to join the raspberries in my fridge (so sweet, so short-lived.) To rot is to resist preservation; to be boldly, maddeningly temporal. …Continue Reading To Rot

Seeping

  • Categories: 2023 Fall, Poetry
  • Categories: '25, Zoe Alarcon
painting of blue sky with gray clouds and a dark forest

ZOE ALARCON
i once thought my body was / empty of me, other than the light / buzz of energy, unease // until I learned the weight / of remembering could swallow / me if I didn’t swallow it…Continue Reading Seeping

Spring 2023

  • Categories: 2023 Spring, Full Digitized Issues
  • Categories: Gabby Avena, Mel Arthur, Sarah Wu
a piece of artwork of a girl with patterned shapes around her

By SARAH WU, MEL ARTHUR, and GABBY AVENA Mel Arthur:I advocated for this theme within small circles of conversation partly because I know what it is like to feel reverence so profoundly, it becomes part of everyday existence. In reverence lies the essence of awe, of wonder, and as the dictionary adds, of respect. But…Continue Reading Spring 2023

lone goose

  • Categories: 2022 Spring, Poetry
  • Categories: '25, Ruth Zuraw

RUTH ZURAW
how lovely to be alone / to trace a winding route in / piercing white. // how lovely to crave / to yearn for wood paneling and grimy tile / that failed to grace your bulbous eyes. // how lovely to creep and crawl…Continue Reading lone goose

Remembering infinity (maybe)

  • Categories: 2023 Spring, Poetry
  • Categories: '23, Caelen McQuilkin
colored sketch of frog

CAELEN MCQUILKIN
This past January, I spent a lot of time reading children’s books — Pete the Cat, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Goosebumps, Blueberries for Sal. Turning through their brightly illustrated pages of blueberry bushes, ghosts and monsters, and the hungry caterpillar’s array of food, I remembered doing the same thing as a child…Continue Reading Remembering infinity (maybe)

Wonderful

  • Categories: 2023 Spring, Prose
  • Categories: '25, Annika Bajaj
an origami piece of a green dragon looking out of a window

ANNIKA BAJAJ
Swinging my legs in technicolor, fourth-grade, all-purpose classrooms with history on one side and “World Weather Map” on the other, I stared down the boy sitting across from me…Continue Reading Wonderful

My Achilles Heel: Intro

  • Categories: 2023 Spring, Prose
  • Categories: '23, Carolyn Thomas
an origami piece of a yellow phoenix in flight

CAROLYN THOMAS
I lay in bed with my eyes shut as the prison alarm assaults my ears. Nothing serious is happening. The warden just wants us to know that it’s 6 am and time for us to stop laying on our asses and start doing our jobs…Continue Reading My Achilles Heel: Intro

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