Issue 61: Spring 2023

Fiction

Other People's Love Letters

By Meg Max

Carys turns the car around, back towards Piper’s school.

Spawning Upstream

By T Williams

Why is the subway so expensive?

The Uglier Animals

By Fernanda Coutinho Teixeira

Larissa decided to become a bat because people had always told her she was beautiful.

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.

My Vestibule School

By Lina Ramona Vitkauskas and Michael Lewy

Tell Me A Story

By Marin Sardy

"White" / "Blanc"

By Kevin Andrew Heslop and Brandon Wint

Poetry

By Mimi Tempestt

basquiat's revenge

today… / i’m just a fat Black bitch with a few good words

Once the spiral starts

By Samuel Ace

from Tours Variously

By Drew McEwan

There are 51 descriptions of you on the wall so far

By Karan Kapoor

Iatrophobia

By Julie Mannell

Essays

Pretend

By Mubanga Kalimamukwento

Come, sister: let us pretend we are just squeezed onto our mattress again.

Magnetron

By Melinda Roy

My father, on his technical training: School was fun because I liked taking things apart, but we didn't do any microwaves.

Interviews

On ‘muddiness, inventions, and slippage’: An Interview with Hoa Nguyen

By Subhanya Sivajothy and Hoa Nguyen

Violet Energy Ingots is the first collection I read by Hoa Nguyen.

Reviews

Perpetual Rebellion: Rereading Forough Farrokhzad

By Rebecca Ruth Gould

In a speech on the virtues of female chastity, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei informed an audience of young poets that it was for the best that Forough Farrokhzad, Iran’s most famous twentieth century poet, died suddenly in a car crash in 1967, at the age of 32.