In her newest collection The Last Catastrophe , Allegra Hyde tracks ideas of apocalypse and collective action from an intergalactic finishing school to a rehab center for internet addicts to a …
"Do you ever feel like/ you're just living/ the same day / over/ and over / and over again."
As long as I have been old enough to understand what the middle class is, it has been described as “shrinking.”
Online Exclusives non-fiction from Darcy Jay Gagnon.
In early May we are driving south from Phoenix on Interstate 10. The land in every direction is sparsely vegetated—saguaro cactus, organ pipe cholla, barrel cactus, and mesquite. Dust blows across …
I had not yet labeled myself but felt the pull of men irresistible. I was drawn to a boy and examined every tether but the core one, that I wanted him to feel the same for me and I knew he didn’t. …
After Graham stopped returning my texts, I started leaving little parts of myself all over the Internet. In his early twenties, especially, Graham left doorways to himself everywhere—not just the …
When she is young, the name “Mary” is very common. If Social Security records for the ranked popularity of baby names in any given year went back to the first century, “Mary” would be number …
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Online Exclusive fiction from Jessica Lee Richardson.
Shelly is fifteen years old, and she is alive today. Shelly is only sometimes alive. Sometimes she is dead.
we can all agree / no jobs for clouds / unconscious drifters
I get a haircut and scrub the stove, feeling unpeeled / from the old terror.
On my swallowed stone, I painted the weather inside a zebra stripe.
Could I not want / the justice and / the sentence and / the jail of a goal?
though I do // look pretty good / slung over // where a pair // of hot pink / fuzzy dice // used to hang—
Take this cryptic correspondence as – a sound bite skirts my wonder.
But come on, even Eve ate a dead baby dino. / Adam was still munching on his apples like a dweeb.
only the two rocks holding each other know / where they find balance.
