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"You Should Do As I Have Done" by Douglas Campbell

Short Story

When the Soil Softens

by Tilbe Akan

Another winter night. Again. There is no summer anymore, only winter and darkness. It’s almost always dark now. Every day, it seems the sun tries to ...read the full piece

"Reaching for the Sun" by Chynna Williams

Flash Fiction

Dovetail

by Chelsea Allen

This is again my summer of space. Space sleeping between me and the wall, twisting and turning and wailing right until the dawn lilac. Space taking ...read the full piece

Short Story

Abandoning a Pet

by Áron Bartal

He was gonna be the rest of my life.I was his and he was mine.We cut through the forest, like blades.Our edges defined us.I was sixteen and he was too ...read the full piece

Essay

A Farce in the Cultural Revolution

by Sue Tong

A Child’s Handwriting Sparked a Storm When the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966, our family — branded among the “Black Five Categories” — was ...read the full piece

Essay

The End of Endings

by Anneliz Marie Erese

1. How many endings have happened to me after good lovemaking? I cannot count. I refuse to count. The lovemaking is only a culmination of other things ...read the full piece

Essay

Your Anger Is Entrusted to Me

by Helin Yüksel

Dedicated to Leyla[1], all Leylas, and Ünzile[2], all Ünziles By growing up around 16 women from both sides, Mom’s and Dad’s, 10-year-old she already ...read the full piece

Poetry

Still & Μωβ

by Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki

Still & Μωβ[1] still[2]There is nothing that doesn’t fit in writing or couldn’t grow in it.I had no land nor space, she was with me, from toes to ...read the full piece

"The Process of Creation" by Atzin Garcia

Poetry

Wallflowers Are Black

by Hajer Requiq

I am not the same woman you left.That woman was chinaware, pottery-work.I have nothing to do with things that break.My mother gave birthto a huddle of ...read the full piece

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Issue Fall '25

In Conversation

The Forbidden Freedom — A Review of Sindhu Rajasekaran’s “Forbidden Desire: How the British Stole India’s Queer Pasts and Queer Futures”

Jhumpa Lahiri — The Writer Who Changed Her Own Tongue

Love and Its Many Tints — A Review of Juhea Kim’s “A Love Story From the End of the World”

A Woman’s Life, Out of Line — A Review of “Girls Who Stray” by Anisha Lalvani

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