ESSAY

June 9

By CHENG TIM TIM

Avoiding white-clad men, even those without knives. Advancing anarchy. Apologizing sometimes unnecessarily.

BACK OF THE ENVELOPE

Tiktaalik

By JANE MORTON

We swallow whole all things / we don’t know, a slow digestion / of the self.

ART

By ALI SHAPIRO

Time isn't real, anyway.

POETRY

By RICARDO ALBERTO MALDONADO

A nickname for God: The Lord Elephant. Lord mule.
Lord’s acres. Hospital Lord. Texas for God Alabama.
God’s sea of blue tarps.

RECENTLY PUBLISHED

2 Dec 2019

FICTION

By P.E. GARCIA

“Every time, it’s the same. A man hands me a golden scarab.”

26 Nov 2019

MICRO

By KATIE BERTA

poem— a sort of
bad prayer.

25 Nov 2019

TRANSLATION

By TUHIN DAS

Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha

21 Nov 2019

WIT TEA

By LIBBY MARSHALL

Yes, we’ve all been busy contemplating the metaphysical implications of a real actual Satan. Does this mean there is also a God, a Heaven, a Hell?

20 Nov 2019

POETRY

By JUSTIN DANZY

We never learned to see the miraculous, only to wait for it.

19 Nov 2019

ENUMERATE

By CHRISTINA SIMON

"Where did he get those gorgeous blue eyes?" The rudest strangers asked Carson the question directly. "Honey, where did you get those blue eyes?"