by Ryan Alexander | Sep 7, 2021 | Issue #2, Issues
It’s UberEats. It’s super cheap.It’s 3-4-2. It’s just for you.It’s order now. It’s holy cow.It’s extra cheese. It’s hidden fees.It’s corporate culture. It’s awful vultures.It’s Black Lives Matter, so do...
by PS Nolf | Sep 7, 2021 | Issue #2, Issues
Aerosol adhesive from the spray gun blows−the polyurethane parts marchingfront and back andfront and back−green and orange hummingbirds in her lungs,nights working the manufacturing line,days doused with drugs and dead dreams.Broken Buddhas line her window sill. Upon...
by Melody Wang | Sep 7, 2021 | Issue #2, Issues
the air was still. On his knees,arms grimy up to the elbows,the old man squinted to surveyuntouched terrain. His steady handwiped off a trickle of sweat, and I watchedas he cut inch-thick tubes of copperfor another void-filling project. Hundredsof tiny, bleached...
by Megan Riggle | Sep 7, 2021 | Issue #2, Issues
with her wry grin—a smile that curled the lips even as the rest...
by Megan Nichols | Sep 7, 2021 | Issue #2, Issues
Praying at the altar of mowed lawnsand bursting hydrangeas, worshippingthe rumble of engines turning over, alongthe narrow row of our dead end street,I drink coffee in the matriarch neighbor’s driveway,her dogs let out like dandelion seeds.My son will be late to learn...
by Megan Nichols | Sep 7, 2021 | Issue #2, Issues
Your faceis the last match in the bookguiding methroughthe wreckagelighting the candlesthat encircle usso that I may seehow bestto reassembleour home. Megan Nichols writes copy and takes product photographs for businesses local to her. She lives in Arkansas with her...
by Makenna Dykstra | Sep 7, 2021 | Issue #2, Issues
///there’s a toilet in the park bathroomthat won’t stop flushing. before thewater has a chance to resolve itselfinto a mirror, centripetal forceinterrupts. humankind’s eternalsearch for vanity is underminedonly by life’s yet stronger impositionof humility. sewer pipes...
by Madeleine Tomasoa | Sep 7, 2021 | Issue #2, Issues
CW: violent imagery i am hunched over ugly like an animal screaming without a sound a cockroach scurried away from me and threw up onto the ground he woke up one day and crashed into earth i want to see fat peel away and i admire how the flesh tries to glue itself...
by Lexi Inez | Sep 7, 2021 | Issue #2, Issues
At the mind’s casinoSlots spin to soothe and then to stirThings up, high as jackpot dreamsPull the lever again, againMore more moreMental payout poursCoins for corner storesChoose candy or wineNot the toilet right behindThe bowl fills, the bowl spillsWater out from...
by Katy Naylor | Sep 7, 2021 | Issue #2, Issues
cast off your past like so much dry skincome down with me to the waterloose those knots which bind you to your old painthe empty cupthe mast at your backlet me be the harbour for your second chancesfind them herein the seaweedon the rocks Katy Naylor is an office...
