DEC 2021 / ISSUE 12

<insert your name here> is in <uto|dysto>pia

by Aditya Shankar

Do peep
Into the shower head
That just fell off.…

Book Two: The letters

by Sabrina Tom

Dear Children,
What did you dream about last night?
How did you help today?

his feathered grief

by Adam Swanson

The first time I let a man hold my body was recent; a Florida-born man with a good job in New York City and a dead dad buried just a few months after mine…

HELP THE SHOOTS GROW, PULL THEM

by Ploi Pirapokin

I’d last seen Lily and Sprout naked almost half a year ago, wading into a stream on a summer day before our ice-cream parlor jobs began. Their butts were fuller…

Vertical slice

by Carol Fischbach

I had no idea John took that many pills, no idea he ignored directions on labels, no idea how he expected doctors to fix everything, not until he teetered…

Senninbari

by Lisa Solomon

As a half Japanese, half Jewish (Eastern European) Caucasian woman, hybridization is literally a part of my DNA, and shows itself often in my practice…