by Veronica Zora Kirin | Mar 31, 2024 | Craft, Issue #6, Issues
“I can’t remember a time when the publishing industry, like other institutions devoted to the arts … didn’t come down on the side of fashion and power.” — Hilton Als When my recent short story was accepted for publication, I was delighted. The hard work was over; it...
by Maddy Sneep | Mar 31, 2024 | Issue #6, Issues, Poetry
We drove out west tothe wealthy part of townto drink fancy beer andeat tiny portions andplay make-believe. On this side of town, the McDonald’s isn’t red, but forest-green withexposed brick, likean old university halllikely named for someslave-owningconfederate...
by L. Shapley Bassen | Mar 31, 2024 | Fiction, Issue #6, Issues
Deborah lost her wallet. Most of us have at one time or another. It’s one of the awful feelings, that moment when you know you don’t know. Or the last time you knew… anything. It swallows you, that feeling. Utter loss. Utter failure. All the work it will take to...
by Maddy Sneep | Mar 31, 2024 | Issue #6, Issues, Poetry
A rabbit hops into my bathroom, chugsmy pharmaceutical jungle juice and passes out cold. I wouldn’t know whatthat’s like because I run hot. I don’t sleep well at all but I dream every night. Lostlocker combinations and classes left unattended by the end of the year....
by Cynthia Lan | Mar 31, 2024 | Fiction, Issue #6, Issues
I was thirteen when I did it for the first time. Thirteen had always been my lucky number. Other kids shied away from it, claiming that it would bring misfortune. I wasn’t one of them. My school ID number contained 13 somewhere in the long string of numbers. I was...
by Lucy Zhang | Mar 31, 2024 | Fiction, Issue #6, Issues
I meet Rain at the end of the tunnel. It used to be one of the tunnels you had to drive through to get to the other side of the mountain. No one travels this path anymore thanks to a new bullet train system built to go through a shorter, less infrastructurally taxing...
