POETRY  

THE PAYPHONE by Joy Priest

TWO POEMS by Leslie Sainz

CONSENT by Jennifer Funk

TWO POEMS by Benjamin Garcia

TRANS IS AGAINST NOSTALGIA by Taylor Johnson

FEMININITY AS A MATH PROBLEM IN AN ATTEMPT TO SOLVE FOR X by Kelly Grace Thomas

TWO POEMS by Alfredo Aguilar

SELF PORTRAIT AS A POETRY BOT by Zohar Atkins

MIRROR ROOM, MEHRANGARH FORT by Chloe Martinez

FOR ANDREW by Jackson Holbert

TWO POEMS by Vandana Khanna

 

FICTION

WHITE FLAG by Leah Browning

MOTH by Cary Holladay

 

INTERVIEW 

with Kyle Dargan

 

ARTWORK

by Coco Wilder

 

 

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CREATION MYTH

by Vandana Khanna

This is how the whole holy mess
went down: cue the girl in tone-deaf
gold, drama thick in her blood. Their
love always caught in the underworld
or the other world. All vendetta and Vedas.
She woke from dreams silted with arrows,
broken teeth, the man-smell still sharp
and human on her. The birds nearsighted
with melancholy. Her heart wintering
over some god she’ll probably never
see again. He tells her to play dead, that
no one will notice— just another girl
from some hill town with her lotus-petal
eyes walking into a forest on fire.

 

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