ESSAY

Whatever Pose You Do, It’s Going to Hurt

By C.E. MCKENNA

I was wailing then, screaming at her to get off me. And she said it again, “Pain’s not the end. You have to fight.”

WIT TEA

SensaSnack by Robert A. Cmar

By ROBERT A. CMAR

“Thank you for complying, please retrieve your SensaBar from the delivery tray.”

BACK OF THE ENVELOPE

“Gaia: [uncomfortably]” and “Gaia and 21st Century Malfunction”

By JIE V. COHEN

I wish all of my children were dead ones

MICRO

Pastoral

By DESPY BOUTRIS

maybe it was the year
the water dried up

RECENTLY PUBLISHED

4 Apr 2025

COMICS

Wasps

By HELENA PANTSIS

If you lay your head against my womb. You will hear a gentle buzzing, a hum so loud & bright.

2 Apr 2025

POETRY

Image shows a flock of several greyish black birds flying away towards the upper left corner. Many of them have their wings spread wide. The background is a solid greyish white sky.

So, After A While,

By TIM SEIBLES

which made the poem / feel pretty far away, / though it was standing / in the middle of everything,

28 Mar 2025

COMICS

Extinction

By COLETTE REED

The dream about the end of the world always goes something like this.

26 Mar 2025

WIT TEA

A piece of toast on a plate with a knife on it. A small sliver of butter rests on the piece of toast.

Book Review, Piece of Toast: A Life of Charred Bread

By DAVID CAPPS

A Life of Charred Bread ultimately fails to deliver, both in terms of pace and stodgy language.

25 Mar 2025

TRANSLATION

A landscape photo of a pair of horns on a horizontal shelf. The horns, which look greenish yellow, are attached to a partial animal skull.

Kika

By EVGENIA NEKRASOVA

Translated from Russian by Marianna Suleymanova

21 Mar 2025

Q&A

Q&A with Anna B. Moore, author of Don’t Pity the Desperate

By MARIE LOOK

[Myra] does not choose this purpose to start out with—it’s a path made by the omnipresent superficiality of popular culture, Twelve-Step language and rituals, and the lack of adult mentorship in her life.

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