Issue #9 • June 2025
Note from the Editor: Our June issue moves from institutional dread to seaside flirtation, from a grandmother’s mischief to a murder that reframes everything that came before it. What each piece has in common is a writer paying close, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes joyful attention to the world around them.
In This Issue
Almost Anything
There isn’t much in life that you can’t grow accustomed to, Mary says to no one. With enough time, with enough exposure, even the…
Genesis in June
my sculpture (found art) gave me happiness made from a wheel.
Grandma
When I was thirteen years old, Mom and Dad never stopped screaming, blaming me for their disaster marriage. It wasn’t my fault Dad had…
Co-Lom-Bia!
“But that’s not fair!” I cried. June 22nd, 1994. A day that would live in infamy forever, for my 4th-grade teacher, Mr. Patterson, refused…
Bones
Bones are the piece of human anatomy I find most fascinating. They are among the last elements to materialize, remaining unformed in the years…
Clandestine, Entangled, Eternal
We’re on the edge of the AegeanI’m under an umbrella made of palm frondshe’s standing in the seaI’m watchinghe’s skipping rocks. In the sun…