The Wallpaper The wallpaper was a forest. You had put it up with your father. You let me into the new dappled world behind your desk. When you sat in …
George’s town pt. 2
Artist’s Statement ‘George’s town pt. 2’ explores distance, diaspora, and the hidden truths of familial betrayal and the taste of disappointment. Footage from a trip to Hong Kong in 2014 …
26 Outings
1. Friday evening, as my husband and I are getting ready for bed, I tell him I think I’ve fallen for a girl. That night we have passionate ‘I can’t …
WOMEN THROUGHOUT HISTORY TOGETHER CHANGING THE WORLD: an interview with Sam George-Allen
Interviewer: Tamara Lazaroff Sam George-Allen is the former co-founding editor of online literary magazine Scum. Her work has been published in The Lifted Brow, Stilts, and The Suburban Review, among …
i am the most fortunate person on this earth (Jennifer Compton)
it is silent my open door lets in a cool pre-dawn breath my husband is asleep everyone to the north south east and west of me is asleep i love …
Bloom (Les Wicks)
Suburbs now have their community gardens. Husbands buried there turn the pages of books abandoned because the heroine fretted too much to actually do anything. This ambition to compost sees …
The Love Scene (Craig Billingham)
Cameron got out of bed in a manner that would not disturb his wife. He stepped into a pair of flip-flops and put on a blue shirt, the one he’d …
On Diaspora: A Short Essay (Ayokunle Falomo)
I didn’t know to dig deep into my own history until I heard Ariana, Loyce and Mwende talk about how deep the colonizers dug their hands into our soils. And …
The Monologue Adventure: Voices of Women 2019
Women have always had powerful stories to share. The everyday is their stage and they survive on a journey of emotional reconciliation within themselves, navigating both the society they live …
Causes (An Jin)
Tram Accident tram driver tells me I’m going to die I think about being a mess they can’t get out of the tracks I think about delays on the line …