by Greg Santos
It’s that in-between season again—when leaves rustle underfoot, pumpkins start appearing on stoops, and change is visible everywhere you look. The days grow shorter, the nights stretch longer, and the world feels charged with the possibility of transformation — fittingly, the theme of this issue.
Read MoreCover art by Melody Pineda, featuring photography by Savannah Dodd, Mia Huang, Esther Mathieu, and David Swartz
Mixed media is a means to express my relationship to identity, otherness and marginalization. Through collecting and interlocking images, weaving becomes a tool and symbol for intersecting realities.
Read MoreCreative non-fiction by Lauren Barbato
Wear your best Forever 21 dress, the one the feminist housewife from Beverly Hills called posh, to the office every Thursday
Read MoreCreative non-fiction by Raena Shirali
I don’t remember the first lie I told, the same way I don’t have a first memory—no first impression of my surroundings vignetted, no rose-tinted arrival at consciousness.
Read MoreComic by Annabelle Olendzki
Annabelle Olendzki, less formally known as “Moowsie” online, is a queer comic artist based in Western Massachusetts.
Read MoreComic by stef lenk
stef lenk is an illustrator and writer whose work has appeared in Brick Literary Journal, This Magazine, Rue Morgue magazine and Broken Pencil magazine amongst others.
Read MoreFiction by Anne Baldo
“Every good girl has daddy issues,” Maddie says, gulping from a two-litre jug of No Name cranberry juice because she has a terrible urinary tract infection.
Read MoreFiction by Anthony Portulese
Nothing exhilarates me more than the friction of hairy legs in high-heeled boots.
Read MoreFiction by Becky Petterson
Sally brought a seashell for her first show and tell. It was small and curved towards itself like a cupped hand.
Read MoreFiction by Leah Mosier-Farquharson
Allen told her that accidents didn’t exist, that everything happened for a reason and any mistake was at least subconsciously accounted for.
Read MoreFiction by Natalie Kishchuk
Trulie felt the bracelet break, its relinquishment, pale pink beads dropping from her wrist onto the flannels she had piled as a pillow, pooling into the hollow made by the weight of her head.
Read MorePhotography by Ben Erlandson
David Orr explains, ‘Bioregionalism’ is the name given to our attempts to integrate the ecological potential of an ecosystem into our institutions.
Read MorePhotography by Emem Etti
This photo series meditates on the devouring nature of love, lust, and yearning. As intimacy deepens between oneself and another, The Self, as a fixed whole, dissolves.
Read MorePhotography by Gage Michael Wheatley
These images were taken over a summer spent walking through the places where people used to be, or where they only barely remain.
Read MorePoetry by Aris Keshav
It feels good to get things done. In four hours of
television the doctors save eight lives
Poetry by Grace Lau
Phagocytosis (n): from the Ancient Greek φαγεῖν (phagein) 'to eat’ and κύτος (kytos) 'cell.’
Read MorePoetry by Sandra Sylvia Nelson
Scotland is fighting period
poverty by providing free sanitary
products in schools and libraries.
