The Forms I Took to Escape From You
Sharon Telfer Eel … you, all slippery sweetness baiting your trap, me, gliding sliding straight in, wriggling slithering bumping those curving lips […]
Category: Issue 4
Assembly Instructions For a Love Triangle
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Domestic Blindings
Jenny Wong After my thirty-seventh birthday, I begin to wander the house at night with the lights off, and wonder if this […]
Pale Urn for Hydras
Haolun Xu i. Am I so bad? All I ever wanted was to simply transcend all things. But life as […]
The Other Side of Me
Helen Chambers A confident stranger with newly-cropped hair stares back at me in the mirror. Does she feel lucky, I wonder? […]
Un, Deux, Trois
Helen Chambers ‘Morning all – hope you’re wide awake, cheerful and ready to work hard. Don’t yawn, George, or you’ll set me […]
The Counselors of Stelita Tero
Mike Keller-Wilson The counselors of sleepaway camp Stelita Tero are beasts, uncaged till morning. By now, we’ve shed our counselor skins, stripped […]
You Never Do
Daniele Nunziata Even God had a day off. Even machines need a day off. Even the moon, once a month, takes an […]
A Horse Named Kairos
Marissa Hoffmann When Dad isn’t reading, he’s talking, and there’s no stopping him when he’s in a good mood. Mum is on […]
A Girl Broken Down
Heather Shaw Sixteen fingers and four malicious thumbs hold me to the bed, Then they get to work. Stretch out my arms […]
In Carini
J. Kenny each afternoon on that ancient dusty hill in a square of smooth slippery stone a crowd gathers in front of […]
While It Snowed
J. Kenny on a Sunday we walked through a cemetery while it snowedand the flowers left at Christmas were now frozen on […]
It Pulls You Under
Laila Amado The season of the fogs brings heat and languor to this island lost in the middle of the sea. Everything […]
Thistle
Ives Phillips I let the bud poke my palette,Bitter up my tongue,Because I’d rather that thanGrin a grin you don’t deserve. I […]
Driven Home
Rob McIvor Alice stops the car in a quiet spot, a service road behind the Multiplex. The last film ended an hour […]
Cornered
Liz Churchill He’s racing to catch up with his mum when he spots leopard skin between the wheelie-bins. It’s well past his […]
Underworld
Cate West It is morning, early. Sunk on a mattress. The tube isn’t running or she’d feel the joists shaking. If she […]
Brought to Bed with a Good Book
Jacqueline Saville Kerry agreed to be my birth partner eventually. She’d been in greater denial than me about my expanding waist and […]
Instructions for Maintaining the Fabric of Your Universe
Karen Jones and soft touches in those first few hours of the honeymoon. Slow caresses, case still full of dresses, this room […]
The Language of Flowers
Grace Palmer “Dearest,” he began, but as he hesitated over the next word his pen dribbled ink onto the paper and blotter. Harry […]
He May Be Human, But I Am Not Divine
Rachel O’Cleary He still wants me to finish first, like before. Sometimes he stops himself so that I can. Sidles up to […]
Double universe
Francine Witte There are forests, there are planets, there is the moon. In this universe, you are nothing but a speckity spec. […]
My Body of Work
Hannah Storm When I was little, my favourite season was autumn. It was when the trees turned the colour of my hair. […]
Papier Mâché
Elizabeth M. Castillo I hate papier mâché the stodge, the sticky remains of the glue the way it gets everywhere, and […]
Remediation
Kate Gehan Her son Jonah noticed gray pellets of scat on the roofline leading up to a displaced board under a soffit […]
The Soft Th
Rosaleen Lynch My English teacher counted my ‘you knows’ during a debate and the soft ‘th’ that made ‘dis’ out of ‘this’ […]
Missing Person Sign at a Rest Stop on the Pennsylvania Turnpike
Kate Deimling A blue line of highway snakes across the map.Alongside, a girl named Jean is enshrinedin image on the screen. It’s […]
The Ousterbout
E.E. Rhodes The day is spike-sprackled and winter-glorious, the neighbours are primed, and Gran is squawking fit to burst her way out […]
Dream Baby
Max Hipp Shake your heart like a half-pint of milk, blow in it, put it back in. It’s another night of playing […]
Panache
T.L. Sherwood The thinness of the envelope puzzles me. Harris has sent a slender, white, unusual feather. Days later, an email explains […]
Polyamory
Elle Shim He loved me the way an orange peeled in the next room permeates the universe for a night. In the […]
