Dancer by Afton Coombs
Afton Coombs Dancer I have no gender. I am only a shape, a sound, my breath, and then I’m gone. If …
Afton Coombs Dancer I have no gender. I am only a shape, a sound, my breath, and then I’m gone. If …
slp Institut fur Sexualwissenschaft & I get it, it’s not the market’s place/ desire/priority, to accommodate me, what the market will bear doesn’t care for me to assert what might curdle the vibe/chip the veneer/offer shoppers less-than-a-smile while we’re…
a. sterling Blackout of an excerpt from Project 2025
Winter Parker I broke my mother’s “Trump 2024” mug on purpose, but I told her it was an accident. Red, white, and blue. An orange-faced felon. My mother’s favorite mug staring at me with the…
Rose Grokwick Allegiance to Allah I pledge allegiance to Allah, to God not the God of presidents or bombs but Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem: in the name of Allah, I pledge allegiance to a world without…
August Stephens SOUL-SUCKER I would be lying if I didn’t say I never believed in eternal damnation, if I was never told I was dirty, filthy after being told “I love you.” We crowd in fear. We tuck our…
Ari Newman Spirals Burning, raging, fire, quench the fear of a moment. I reach to hold my destination to my chest–yet. Gray, broken bodies drag my spine towards the ground. I search for peace among dragged empires that tumble forward…
Laker Thrasher in regards to fermi’s paradox on what i can only assume was a beautiful day enrico fermi proposed a problem that everyone understood a cosmic ouroboros head to tail, beginning to end the eternal return to the infernal…
Anna Maeve The Other Side of the Mirror There is something deeply fragile about a world where a man in a suit, with a flag pin on his lapel, gets to decide whether trans people deserve rights. Yet here we…
Pauline Mornet Thanksgiving Dinner we went back to the desert in the house of ruspoli and at Thanksgiving dinner, a guy who shared my name offered us a ride in a sand dune vehicle like a quad but vicious and…