“The Necklace” By: Laryssa Wirstiuk
I broke my long, jangling necklace again. At least two of the tiny bronze bells rolled under the radiator, lost forever. I should scold myself for neglecting to...
Tag: sexuality
“Androgynous as a Really Androgynous Thing” By: Dylan Sonderman
I lurch sucking in fashion to correspond with my assigned gender but slip up in the wrong bathroom tripping balls on estrogen speed I purge facets shifted feari...
“The Scar on Your Hand” By: Sheridan Gillam
Sitting in my truck, I remember the scar on your hand. I remember how it was revealed by the sleeve of your sweatshirt scrunched up against my side as your arm ...
“Certain truths of being cynically disillusioned” By: Nicole Johnson
I can tell you why I compare to her. Why I’m just as good as she is. She isn’t any better than me, I’m most certain of it, well nearly. I don’t see why Sammy le...
“Savannah” By: Tyler Quick
I couldn’t wake him up. I only sat there staring at the ceiling, a single gray stripe denoting its only partition, where in the mornings after I had been erased...
“People Who Eat Salmon” By: Rachel Charlene Lewis
Alex and I could buy salmon instead of the tuna fish that sustains us, but right now we wear poverty as a cover for the middle class suburbanism that bored us, ...
“Dick and Jane” By: Amasa Guy Larkins
Dick Albright was hung each day in junior high P.E., not by the neck, but from the crotch to the knees, at least. Dick is a nickname, diminutive, but Dick was n...
“Childhood” By: Eric Balaz
XI. That summer we were covered in rashes and our ears stayed infected. We lived where the Niagara bent and collected run-off and debris. We swam at the site of...
“First Kiss” By: Philicia Montgomery
“No, the index finger is the top lip and the middle finger is the bottom lip. And you gotta, like, put your hand in the shape of a letter C but have your ...
“Surface Tension” By: Chris Bedell
I plowed into the school parking lot while steam almost seeped out of my head. My eyes glanced down at the white envelope that was currently seated on the front...