OCT 2021 / ISSUE 10

BRING TO A BOIL, THEN SIMMER

by Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

The soup is meant to be a reminder. You want to remind her—with spices and matchsticked scallions and cracked seeds and noodles and thick, hot broth…

Dr. Manhattan Considers Oppenheimer

by Nay Saysourinho

What is heartbreak, Oppenheimer? A nuclear cloud over history, drones blooming like dandelion seeds, cluster bombs under the smooth feet of children…

Magnanimity

by Kat Lewis

A ghost slid into Zuri’s DMs. Dread sunk through her gut like a dropped weight when the phone buzzed in her pocket. She wasn’t sure how she knew this…

THe ENd

by Christine Larsen

Christine Larsen is a Harvey Award-nominated cartoonist and illustrator, who has created art for comics, book covers, stories, posters and websites…

Things I Can Do With My Mouth

by Roe McDermott

I can bite, maim, break skin, make bleed, spit. I can speak, shout, scream, screech. I can become megaphone, alarm, crow, lioness, wolf, Banshee. I can…

An Exercise in Counting

by Eva Recinos

Eight (8) different homes in (2) two cities. One (1) undergraduate degree and one (1) graduate degree, the latter completed at a small art school in…