Daughter the Warrior
By Meggie Royer
The father from Yemen who lives on the upper floor of our apartment building
reveals that when he was first teaching his three-year-old daughter English
he named every object in their … Continue reading→
‘Dear Nat’
by Anastacia Tolbert
nat,
everyone should have 5 multicolored washcloths. a white one for the face, one for the body, one for your front private area, one for your back private area and one for the … Continue reading→
The Fall
By Татьяна Мурадова
Welcome to Russia circa 1985.
Ask but do not answer. Survive.
Positions are fickle. Open lies.
Wolf eyes. Uniform responses.
Family fuck ups and generations of militants.
Socialist foxes … Continue reading→
By Victor D. Infante
When I was a kid, I used to draw my own superheroes. Most of them were riffs on existing comic book or movie characters, of course, with the backstory and the iconography mixed and matched with … Continue reading→
Independence Day
By Truth Thomas
There are fists making tom toms of eardrums,
boots kicking downbeats in skulls,
in every state of tinted circles.
We the trapped traps bear marks
of all their sticks and mallets,
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