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Vessel For Joy - Jennifer Friedman
Day breaks on this lurid temptress who embodies the world’s soul. She breathes fire mist onto his loins and he is captured in her web....
Nov 5, 20201 min read


It's Not a Fashion Statement - Kirsty Crawford
In order to get to high school, a decrepit-double decker bus would be mounted from the only village bus stop. The bus stop had one seat...
Nov 4, 20204 min read


Portrait of an Internet Mean Girl - Emily Hessney Lynch
You sit alone with your hard seltzer and your phone, scrolling and scrolling. Who can you rage at today on the internet? It’s your...
Nov 3, 20203 min read


Rust and Luster - Talena McNeely
In the dream I was slowly drifting in a rusted raft, pulling strands of pearls out of a green lagoon clouded with mud. The gleaming...
Nov 2, 20201 min read


Brooklyn Birds - Nicole Rivera
In his jungle of grown lilies snakes and bamboos spirals dragonblood incense, thumps like steady knocking live maracas and bongos by...
Nov 1, 20202 min read


Out & Up - Giacomo Ranieri
It was a night with wispy clouds, a long time coming. A time between days of the week. A night where good happened. I had to make it...
Oct 31, 20202 min read


Our New House - Sarah Davis
In our new house the carpet was red and thick, perfect for children because it would be so hard to get dirty; I skinned my knees on it...
Oct 30, 20203 min read


Fighting the Shadows - Pauline Hawkins
Ian and I chuckled as we watched a viral MMA video that came across my feed. It was the Bellator fight that had a fighter wake up from a...
Oct 29, 20208 min read


Why I Shaved My Head and Why Other People Should Too - Saya Iki
This essay has to start somewhere, let’s pick a winter’s day in February of 2020. Imagine constantly having the urge to pull your hair...
Oct 28, 20205 min read


Little Girl - Nazani Cassidy
The pink indoor flowers, Ate them up. Showed them my pretty little ankles, Achilles, anklet. And so on. Became the green they envied,...
Oct 27, 20201 min read


For the Therapist Across the Couch - Meri Tumanyan
I can only imagine how difficult it is to hear people share latent fears and anxieties day in and night out, travel with them through the...
Oct 26, 20202 min read


Landscape - Shelley Saposnik
It is a cold March – trees have yet to sprout leaves Here and there an evergreen lends color to otherwise Grey and charcoal trunks and...
Oct 25, 20202 min read
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