Introduction

Editor's Letter

As I sit at my son’s swim practice, watching the dividers cut through the water—blue and yellow pulsing in alternating waves—it’s hard not to think about division.
Fiction

The Quiet Room

The Quiet Room measured at –20 decibels, silent as the night packed in snow, though even then, the air could whisper.

The Salesgirl

Dirty Fish

Duct Tape

The Garden

Hybrid/Experimental

A space for exploring experimental and multi-form writing in combination with disciplines including (but not limited to) visual art, mixed-media, science and technology, audio, performance, and video; a space of endless possibility.

San Andreas Fault: A Collaboration

DEATH TO ALL DARLINGS

Poetry

The Mirror World

A man in a “Baudelaire for President Shirt” fell into a mirror.

Ready-made Art

(In)divisible

My Children Draw a Line Down My Body

Almost

James Snow Triptych

How to Love a Monster

Self-portrait as a Dissected Frog

Adventure / Ars Poetica

Four Teaspoons to One Quart

Episodic Tremor and Slip

The Knight and the Page Debate Their Life’s Work

SHORING

road tolls

THE BURY

My meds alarm

Human Elegy

Frozen Beach Eruptions

The Dark

"In the Morning" and "I Walk Out"

A Memory of You

Horde

Ray

Nostalgia

Marginalia

Making Allowances

Death

Ways to not forget

life on the hyphen

The Death of Bands of Rain

The Only Time I Get the Last Word is in My Poems

Axolotls

Cut to Exist

Essays

Disability

In a small pâtisserie located away from home and hospital life, I sat and rewrote my story.

Stories Within the Prayer

Reconstructing the Deconstruction

you may know me by my shell

A Veterinarian of Lines

Reviews

The Space Between: A Review of The Lantern and the Night Moths by Yilin Wang

When I first started asking myself the questions that led me to identify on the asexual spectrum—the multifaceted space of queer identities that comprise the asexual community—it was a powerful, self-affirming experience.
Art

Trauma/No More Room

This piece was taken from a series of black and silver images that I created when I was ill, in the early 2000s.

Five Images

Jin-me Yoon is a Korea-born, Vancouver-based artist whose work explores the entangled relations of tourism, militarism, and colonialism.