SEPT 2023 / ISSUE 27

OWL WOMAN

by aureleo sans

For a long time, I worried that I would become her. They said it was an organic brain disease with a late onset. You could be all regular one day…

INTERVIEW WITH MINDA HONEY

by Leigh Hopkins

Minda Honey’s highly anticipated debut memoir, The Heartbreak Years, (Little A, October 2023) was destined to be a bestseller…

HOW TO SWALLOW A SWORD

by Kate Finegan

Listen to Pop when he says, "We could use a sword swallower." Let hope bloom in your ribcage, tendril-tangle your esophagus; hope he means the show…

BOLLYWOOD HIJAB 1985

by Leila C. Nadir

The problem was sex. And by sex, I mean kissing. Especially kissing between unmarried people or underaged kids. That was the worst kind of sex…

SUTURED MEMORI

by Michelle Naka Pierce

In this wedding day photo, you see Mama in Ritsuko Obasan’s face. You are told she is the pretty one. Or the smart one. Or the feisty one. Unreliable memory…

PHD BODY

by Heidi Biggs

I walk around with my body like a double, funhouse mirror, she/they they/she are walking on top of paths we walked before more blindly, as if someone...