Long Distance I couldn’t fall asleep so I tried to reach across the plains and touch your buzzed hair but I wasn’t sure you’d be awake Katherine Cooley is a collection of many things including poet, freelance musician, private lesson teacher, speech coach, and barista. She is thrilled to have her first published poem next…
A Word from the Editor
Welcome to Issue 8.5! I’m just going to tease it now . . . next week is going to be a big week for announcements! We have several exciting new things coming up. So, make sure you check back next week to find out what’s new! In the meantime, we’ve got three fantastic new pieces…
Issue 8.5 – Nonfiction
Dates are important to doctors. Timelines, records, charts, files. Every time I go to a hospital appointment, all my information is there waiting for me, which is pretty much one of the only reliable things I’ve experienced in a hospital. Last time, the receptionist was searching through her pile of files for mine, only to…
Issue 8.5 – Fiction
I have to cancel. I have to. He’ll hate me, but I can live with that. Maybe. I mean, what kind of bitch cancels a coffee date? Me, apparently. He’s so nice though, so sweet and kind and honest. Honest. So I should be honest too, right? I could go and then tell him. When…
Issue 8.5 – Poetry
February is a dark heresy. Bare branch alters and dull shell-gray cathedral sky. Everything so hard and tired and I wonder if we will ever know green again. I chew on prayer seeds, hoping they taste of tree bud and April. I wonder if this is what it is to search for God. Alexis-Rueal is…
Book Review – This Will Be My Undoing
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins Morgan Jerkins’ debut essay collection, “This Will Be My Undoing”, promises the reader 10 essays about “living at the intersection of black, female, and feminist in (white) America”. From the first essay to the last,…
The Little Things – Microwork
The Big Apple Sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve reached the garden when everybody keeps searching for gold, picking desperately at flakes of mica in the sidewalks tearing the roads apart to dig out the dream. Rebecca Cohen is a graduate of the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, where she…
A Word from the Editor
Welcome to Issue 8.4! I’m proud to bring you our latest issue. As always, it is fantastic! This week, we are bringing you a creative nonfiction piece entitled “This is the Moment” by repeat contributor Chantel Sandbach, our second-ever science fiction piece entitled “From Me to You” by Ellen Grace, and an intense poem by…
Issue 8.4 – Nonfiction
THE NEXT MORNING: 08:17 The light filtering through the living room window is weak and diffuse. It’s a familiar light, in an unfamiliar window. I watch dust motes float through the beams for a moment before I even think to wonder where I am. Because those aren’t my dust motes. And this isn’t my…
Issue 8.4 – Fiction
Last night I dreamed I went to Infinity again. I was wearing a long, blue dress adorned with glitter, and drinking a martini from a coned glass. You were wearing a grey dress, and sipping cider. How we met was a cliché, but then again, everything here is a cliché, isn’t it? Our eyes met…
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