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Issue Spring '24

"Being proud is a sin" by Madeleine Matzer

Short Story

And Then There Were Nuns

by Maria Valenzuela Frangakis

We moved to Río Hondo from our small village of San Jacinto in the heat of summer in 1962. I’d been hearing about this impending move for as long as I ...read the full piece

Short Story

Hold Me Tight

by L. Vocem

Content warning: This text contains references to sexual assault and violence. A bus arrives at the strip mall parking lot. I check the number. It’s ...read the full piece

"how come you say what i was thinking yesterday" by Agnes Schneidewind

Short Story

The Disruption of Public Order

by Lucy Braun

It only takes one asshole to ruin a good thing for everybody else. Today the water is surprisingly warm. After everyone’s heating bill went up thanks ...read the full piece

Essay

Flowers Stay Fresh

by tony lashden

This essay starts on September 25 th . The rent is overdue, and I’m lying in the bedroom calculating how many days we have before our landlord starts ...read the full piece

Essay

ESOL Kid

by Madari Pendas

“Wild tongues can’t be tamed; they can only be cut out.” ― Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza I didn’t speak English when I ...read the full piece

Flash Nonfiction

On the Death of a Chipmunk

by Annika Nerf

I find you, self-contained in a ball, eyes closed. Front flower bed, 40°F, no snow. You lie nestled into the last shoots of the black-eyed Susans. You ...read the full piece

"There are Two Colors in my Head" by Sean Gallagher

Poetry

Observation

by Jane Yevgenia Muschenetz

No one knows anyone in this city. Let’s not get existential, I’m talking about the neighbors again, the time-lapsed way we’ve watched their children ...read the full piece

"Sprouting from inside" by Daniela Pichler

Poetry

Still Life

by Martina Natale

i. Every morning, when the sun is still more spirit than light, I’m roused from my rest in the wake of hymns and birdsong. I have been waiting for an ...read the full piece

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Issue Spring '24

In Conversation

A Poetic Voyage of Conscience through the Maze of Memory: A Review of Ankit Raj Ojha's "Pinpricks"

Coming to Terms with Yourself — A Review of “Almost Happy” by Ella Voss

Recovering Lives Left Behind: A Review of "Saltwater Demands a Psalm" by Kweku Abimbola

The International Political Poet: An Interview with Serena Piccoli

News & Events

(Writers) in Climate Crisis — Workshop and Reading

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