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After Guadalupe Nettel’s “Fungus” With my big toe, I pressed down on the bloated bulb of seaweed until a burst of salt air and ocean water popped out of its membrane. Amalia refused to do the same. It was her first time seeing seaweed washed up on the sand and she was repulsed by it. […]
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Mia Carrillo is a 24 year old emerging writer and editor from Los Angeles, CA. She has a BA in English and Creative Writing from Reed College. Currently, she is a freelance writer and editor for various indie magazines while editing a memoir for an unpublished Portland author. Her work explores what it means to […]
In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who not long before our story opens had made experience of a spiritual affinity more attractive than any chemical one. He had left his laboratory to the care of an assistant, cleared […]
When I’m feeling down, I go for nighttime swims with the aquarium turtles. I was hired as a security guard because people keep trying to steal our very expensive penguins. In my opinion, the sea turtles are the real prize. They swim in happy little circles when they see me coming. Our most sought-after penguin […]
The nodes were like beetles, their black metal bodies shining between the attendant’s fingers. “Just a pinch, dear,” he said, leaning in and fixing the nodes to my temples, measuring symmetry with my eyes and his. Buried beneath clumped lashes, his green irises dilated as he pushed. The beetles’ legs dug. The worm moved, right […]
Sophie Hoss loves the ocean and is in bed by nine every night. She has received a Pushcart Prize, and her fiction and poetry can be found in BOMB, The Baffler, Split Lip, The LA Review, Wigleaf, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Little Divinities, was published with New American Press.
Benjamin Shane Evans (1991) is a writer from the American Midwest. He studied political science, literature, and philosophy at the University of Iowa, and has a master’s degree in literature from Iowa State University. His works have appeared in various publications, most recently in The Emerson Review. He currently lives and works in Des Moines, […]
The kid—they call him Spud—sees it while walking the mile to where he catches the school bus every morning except Thursdays when his mom pulls a shift at the school cafeteria and drives him there at seven sharp. But this is a Tuesday, and Spud is taking his time, doing his best to kick every […]
Clif Travers is a visual artist and writer living in Portland, Maine. His work has been featured in multiple literary magazines and anthologies, and his collection of linked stories, The Stones of Riverton, was published by Down East Books in September of 2023. Travers received his MFA in creative writing from Stonecoast at the University […]
Clemens hated doctors. When he came of age in the late ‘80s, they invariably made him feel worse—even the ones whose off-the-cuff diagnoses and hair-trigger antibiotic prescriptions made him, physically, better. They’d ugly-eye his hacking coughs and splotchy complexion before assuring him, almost begrudgingly, that it was merely seasonal allergies. They’d lecture him when drawing […]
Douglas Silver’s fiction has appeared in The Sun, Kenyon Review, The Cincinnati Review, New England Review, The Chicago Tribune Printers Row Journal, Callaloo, and elsewhere. His work was cited as a “Distinguished Story” in Best American Short Stories 2019. An Elizabeth George Foundation grant recipient and former writer-in-residence at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, he is […]
8:44 am Tuesday greets me with pale golden light, singing the song of the morning, the song of opportunity. I rise from my bed without using the snooze button even once, ready to meet the promise of the day, and I prepare my body and spirit for the world. Before I step into the shower, […]
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