Issue 03 | Spring 2025
Antigone - A Sestina
She doesn’t know where exactly, but they are here in the dunes…
Camera Trap (Is it Cake?)
Release at the Garden // Ode to Forough
i wish i could take you to the gardens in Abyaneh…
Exploratory
Early this morning, at Miami’s Baptist Memorial Hospital, the head nurse calls the hospital’s plan an exploratory surgery…
The Mountain Holds Me
As I step on your amazing back, my feet tickle your pebbles…
Cardboard Box Tomb
In the corner of my closet sits a clear box…
Actress
You are my movie.
Ghost
Pelvic Gifts
I Think My Dad is a Hitman
Maybe this isn’t a thought that most people would have about their parents…
With Small Tools Come Big Responsibilities
The Many Selves Within the Mind: To Cleave or To Cleave?
A noise behind me lassos itself to my ear…
To Be Wet
There’s a rib cage at the bottom of Lake Ontario…
Obituary 11
grid system: knock knock, anyone (in) there?
Waiting for an Email Reply
Dear Professor Didi, My name is Gogo. I look forward to your response.
Hike Piece
Find a hill.
Frida
Ten minutes away from Orange in the heart of Santa Ana is the community’s only arthouse cinema…
The Task
to write about an ordinary morning from the window…
Blackout
amidst Bombdrop, Light extinguished…
Pleasure in Plastic Placidity
You are sitting in a striped lawn chair next to an infinity pool at sunset…
Issue 03 | Spring 2025
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Issue 03 features work from Julia Ainley, Kevan Copeland, Milo Openshaw, Tate Peacock, Aisling Doran, Alissa Binder, Lucas Escoto, Tristan Lajarrige, Sheila O’Hearn, Elizabeth McKee, Thi Nguyen, Zoe Stivens, Abigail Clemmens, Susie Zhu, Tamar Bresge, Saba Hakimzadeh-Abianeh, Roger Holzberg, Clara Davis, and Katie Clemmer.