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 [
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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