Ordinary Nostalgia

Let Me Clarify #14: Unsolicited Advice by Genia Blum

/ Genia Blum / Misc
Years ago, I survived a massive overdose. My near-death experience left me grateful for the second chance at life, and removed all anxiety about a future demise.

FICTION: Battle of Plassey

/ Torsa Ghosal / Fiction
1. “In 1757, the Nawab of Bengal’s army fought the British East India company for […]

Poems: Sara Youngblood Gregory

/ Sara Youngblood Gregory / Poetry
climate death but my blood runs hot “guts in a glass vase” is a reference […]

Day Twenty-Three

/ Carolina Meurkens / Letters & Essays
Quarantine reminds me of December mornings in Northern Germany, an unwelcomed melancholy that turns familiar […]

FICTION: What Women Adore

/ Megan Howell / Fiction
Kileen’s eyes went to the boy in row b, latching onto him and reeling her […]

Cat Chong’s Lockdown Life

/ Cat Chong / Misc
My Temperature is below 38 degrees C and I am awakening I awakening am awake

Scott Manley Hadley’s Lockdown Life

/ Scott Manley Hadley / Misc
It is hard to run away / In lockdown / When everything you're running from / Is inside your head 

FICTION: The Draw of It

/ Ansgar Allen / Fiction
The outcrop held the attention of those in the bay, having appeared at first light, […]

FICTION: The Chair of Death

/ Tom Halford / Fiction
Your great-grandmother, she had a jingle jangle laugh. Sweet and timeless, it was the laugh […]

Little Brown Boats

Queen Mob’s Presents: Alina Stefanescu

/ Queen Mob / Misc
Today I watched / a wasp build a nest / inside a Little Free Library...

Anthony Strain’s Lockdown Life

/ Anthony Strain / Misc
Getting thru this in an advanced state of alone is the truth we have to unbox, the truth a million zooms can only tweak.

FICTION: Stolen Art

/ J. Dianne Dotson / Fiction
Julian Broadmoor rapped the doorknocker. He hefted his briefcase, tugged at his scratchy shirt collar, […]

Coming out during Corona

Poem: Sarah Nichols

/ Sarah Nichols / Poetry
Interlude for Player Piano, 1 After Westworld I give them these relics of the future: […]

Paula Harris’s Lockdown Life

/ Paula Harris / Misc
the problem with sharing a house and being in lockdown / – being in lockdown and celibate, lockdown and lover-less – / is that there’s no alone time...

FICTION: That Old Chestnut

/ Elliot Harper / Fiction
“That old Chester, eh?” He says. I frown. What does he mean? He sits there […]