FICTION: Lost Coast, CA ~ 1997

/ Kara Vernor / Fiction
That old guy who loiters around the food court seems lonely maybe, like he doesn’t […]

(Not) My Writing Desk

Poems: Gabrielle Martin

/ Gabrielle Martin / Poetry
Messier 87 Silence dripping with radiation and searing golden apostrophes, I look into the night […]

Bar Italia: Sleep Like an Italian

Rigor Samsa

/ Scherezade Siobhan / Letters & Essays
In the attention economy, we are all willing mayflies. Poetry, on the other hand, is how we extend the possibility of presence,

FICTION: Citizens Band

/ Amy Kiger-Williams / Fiction
I got a new set of walkie-talkies for my twelfth birthday. They were black and […]

Poem: Adriana Cloud

/ Adriana Cloud / Poetry
I Keep Finding New Ways to Fall To hurt yourself in a dream and wake […]

MISFIT DOC: Remembering Eric Botting

/ Roy Goddard / Misfit Docs
The publication of his article “The masturbatory turn: a brief history of research in the late 20th century university” went more or less unregarded for a few years

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Jessica Sequeira / Misc
For a few seconds the moon vanished. People watched through dark lenses; from Santiago there was partial obscurity

FICTION: The Chimney

/ Jeremy Luke Hill / Fiction
The grate in the base of the old mill’s chimney opened onto nothing much I […]

FICTION: Ghost Bike

/ Jennifer Fliss / Fiction
She had lost her ride. The barely-there young woman runs her hand along the frame, […]

TLDR Classic Literature

Poems: Erika Luckert

/ Erika Luckert / Poetry
Iterations in a wartime studio How many ways are there to cast a bull? From […]

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Jeremy Fernando / Misc
Writing is my primary mode —of not just expressing thought, but of thinking itself...

Poem: Mary Lannon

/ Mary Lannon / Poetry
The Leopard Tells of his Spots I want to rewind the magenta clock and look […]

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Yahia Lababidi / Misc
A few years ago, I found a bird egg in a flower pot on my balcony and, shortly after, went bird mad...

MISFIT DOC: Stigmata in the Plate

FICTION: The Reasons Why I Love You

/ Steve Gergley / Fiction
A Love Poem for My Beloved Wife (Who Other People Think Doesn’t Exist) on Her […]

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Alexandra Naughton / Misc
This place where I stand and wait for the bus every day is not my writing desk.