June 6, 2018 | Fiction
Lone Star
Rachel Duboff
The day we met, you told me Los Angeles was home but that you were born in Houston. It was the insurance company’s orientation day for new employees, and you were standing alone at the far table, looking around with hesitation, like a child on the first day of school.
June 6, 2018 | Poetry
Four Poems
Su Cho
Field Notes in Haiku
I hear a giant
lives in a stardew valley
I follow the signs:
a knot of sparrows
outlines the shape of a nose—
cold autumn rainfall
the field of yarrow
turned
June 4, 2018 | Nonfiction
The Shape of a Story
Jason Schwartzman
“Bit ‘im in the jugular,” the truck driver tells me about the bear ten feet away, describing the day the bear went crazy.
June 4, 2018 | Fiction
The Miles Behind Us
Drew Buxton
She’s still searching for hers but isn’t jealous. She’s happy I finally found my med. I take it in the morning with my cereal, and she knows to leave the milk out. I can put down a whole box at once
Candace Lee and Me
Rebekah Morgan
I was a loser and I was a fifth grader and I was hoping, never prayin’, to watch somebody open a can of whoop ass on The Stevens Twins. Somebody needed to sell more ten pound bags of sweet vidalia
Things in my room: Shrine
Martha Grover
The morning of our second date I drew a card – now I can’t remember which one...
Serial Poem: Meimei
Kristin Chang
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[meimei’s a meatness sis slug of blood boat the body tiger the teeth selfie tongue selfie chintilt selfie lilt her lily pucker her puss pin her skin back tap her mouth flap saps herself a shelf
Ben Loory Interview
Bud Smith
It's work that I want to do, and then sometimes it's just fun, and then sometimes it's a pain in the ass.
White Lies
Andrey Gritsman
I live my life by white lies.
And poetry is white lies.
Second language is white lies too.
As well as the first.
But language is the only way
to hide love.
White, black, transparent,
or
Tunneling Out: An Interview with Tao Lin
Elle Nash
I think the dominator model will always exist in each person, just like each person has partnership qualities. After learning more about history, it does seem to me now that humans are in a process, however inconsistent and drawn-out, of recovering from extreme sexism—which reached absurd levels when people started promoting Yahweh ~3500 years ago, culminating maybe with Christianity around the first century—over millennia.
The Difficulty of Learning to Say Yes
Craig Fishbane
Naoko knew all too well how difficult it was to imbibe the air of a foreign culture. She had matriculated for a year at the University of Santa Barbara to study saxophone and marked each day as a progression from one shameful moment to the next.
Nights Like This
Teague von Bohlen
It’s that night in the summer when your open windows mean nothing, when your bed is just stuffed heat
Shredded Cheese
Eric Bosse
My daughter stood on tiptoe by the metal grocery cart and told me we needed two more bags of Colby Jack.
Street Repeat
Street Repeat
StreetRepeat is an online project curated by photographer Julie Hrudova that aims to recognize similarities and repetition within the genre of street photography. Hrudova arranges each entry on the
Your Father Devouring His Short Stack
Geoff Peck
He had a disciplined approach to all things that surely came from the military. For breakfast it was always two hard boiled eggs – you imagined he swallowed them whole – but on the road, he allowed one indulgence: a short stack of pancakes.