Nonfiction

To the Captain I Saw at Cracker Barrel

Welcome home. Welcome back, sir, and welcome home. Welcome back to the world you once knew, one which looks entirely different to you now, one which resembles the world you lived in before but now seems drawn like a cartoon and scored with music... more »

Short Short

Snake

We exfoliated frantically in a vain attempt to eliminate every shred of skin we'd worn before you left. This was Snake's idea. He left hollow, papery shells of himself draped down the stairs like forgotten streamers. I exhausted three loofahs. more »

(de)Classified

“What is broken, God Blesses” and Piranha Fishing

“What is broken, God Blesses” –Jimmy Santiago Baca Broken with the hollow and can never be sung; tomato vines, sticky gnats, yellow flower of bodies into nectar. Just to taste memory. Under my own steam away... more »

Fiction

My Magpie Eyes, My Trampoline Heart

He looks as though he wants to tell of everything good that ever happened to him. The time when he was sixteen and kissed his best friend’s girlfriend behind the dumpsters outside the Shezan Tandoori. The way her tongue tasted of sea salt and... more »

Longer Poetry

Secrets

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Nonfiction

The Oldest Guilt I Know

John Mully and I were sitting in the ER, Johnny holding my undershirt to his bleeding eye, me tapping my foot to the rhythm of the heart monitor attached to a bum lying in the hall. more »

Criticism

The “Highly Important Matter of Clothes”: Apparel and Identity in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand

This essay examines the ways in which Larsen uses fashionable apparel to map connections between racial identity and aesthetic style. more »

Short Short

Things I Never Thought I’d Say

I earned an A in physics. Did the tiger attack you or did you attack the tiger? It wasn’t me, Officer. He wore cutoffs on the first date. I married him anyway. more »

Featured Artwork

5 Pieces by Stephen Anstey