ISsue One

Fiction

LE CHRIST jaune

By MATT KELLY

My Dear Theo,  

Be thankful you left home before they moved here. The light was better in Zundert, I recall.


the laundromat and the vacuum

By CLAIRE ORRANGE

If you were to ask her, “What’s so funny?”, she would not know how to answer, but would instead laugh at the question.


WILd thing

By CINDY PHAN

The month the world begins to end, your sister shows up holding a monkey’s tail.

“Come with me,” she says. “I think we should give it back. He must be missing it.” 

Poetry

My grandmother taught me to love wildflowers

By JUDE OKONKWO

My grandmother taught me to love wildflowers

to cut each unruly stem from the soil

like a lover would

By JUDE OKONKWO

It is true that I smile when it rains

not as a cynic does

necessity

By BEN BELLET

am i doing it wrong?


i saw a sparrow on the ground,


soup

By MAI NGUYEN

The Easiest Soup Ever, Tasty and Great for a Cold Day, No Need to Cook Anything Else (from mom with margins by me)

WHen I was

By ELIZA CART

when I was seventeen

I read a book about a girl

he asks if i’ve considered what we talked about that day without telling me what it is

By LARA ZENG

When 7 of the Catholic school girls [

clean

By LARA ZENG

One noon my grandfather begins

bent and seized

KEttle

By LARA ZENG

How fortunate it is that a kettle screams 

Day

By CHASE DEARINGER

They weld the rim

of morning

Cut

By MIKAYLA BLAY CONNOLLY

Everyone! Come watch as this

small,

Features

featuring

grey johnson

“Sweet home”

Art

art by

Stella Adler

art by

Anja clark

art by

Sophie Sanchez

art by

Jonah turk

Music

fiveteen

by Samson Herman


All we ever were

by Chance Emerson and Jack Riley

 

video art by

jonah turk