Content warning: guns, sexual harassment. My grandfather once told me Someday when you’re olderWhen the boys line up at your door They’ll be all over…
Posts published in “Literary”
Taming Her Poison
By SAIA MIZRAHI on May 2026
Her gnarled fingers twist in the light of the sunFirst encased in guiltshe writhes away from the warmth Her fingers burn from the heatcascading off…
Voicemail #437
By JULIA KLEINBERG on May 2026
0:00Hi, I’m just calling to…actually, I don’t know why I’m calling. I miss your voice, I guess. But I don’t really have all that much…
Pomegranate-Stealing Goblins
By JOSEPH FRUG on May 2026
The goblins are thieves not only of pomegranates, but of matchsticks as well, loose string, small scraps of metal, and occasionally the smallest portion of…
Trinity
By GRIFFIN BRAHLER on May 2026
“And I looked as he opened the seventh seal, and lo there was a great earthquake, and the sun became a sackcloth of hair, and…
The Star
By ELEANOR CLARK on May 2026
Perderus III halts. Floating in the neverending cosmos, the huge metal ship remains suspended about a mile away from the star. Once the pictures are…
evolution
By CORALLUS MEEKS on May 2026
never forget we are breathing accidents of kismet with pulses in perfect synchrony with the vibration of the universe void of anything save this vibrant…
Guilty
By CHRIS ERRICHIELLO on May 2026
The noise of the rotors was Mia’s only companion in the back of the snow-white hover car. In the front of the car, the robots’…
What Is Life
By CAMPBELL WRIGHT on May 2026
I’m stuck in my thoughts The walls of my head barricade against the moving waters That call themselves thoughtsThoughts that seem kind at first— But…
Tree & Wall
By ARLO JONES-ROUNDS on May 2026
Tree, I wish for you to stopYou take to me like an arrowLike a slow and thorough plagueYou thrust your branches inside meAnd so I…
Low Cortisol
By JONAH JACOBSTEIN on April 2026
Her golden fleece does shimmer in the lightA song of joy with drooping doggy faceFor Mele is a song of pure delightShe greets us at…
visions of spring
By GREYSON TAYLOR on April 2026
on a cold and dreary day in February, I consider the days to come,how I will revel in the whisper-light breath of cool air on…
Rhapsody
By FELIX FARIS on April 2026
Walk with meAlong the thin breaking horizonWalk with meTill the sun dimsWalk with meWhile our shadows fall unfurldown across the landWe are cowboys inyour dreamingWarriors…
The Violin
By ELEANOR CLARK on April 2026
In the autumn, the trees in the family’s yard would shed their leaves, covering the ground with a collage of reds, oranges, and yellows that…
at dawn we’ll ascend
By CORALLUS MEEKS on April 2026
This horizon holds its breathand so do I Her sun, sinking below an apricot sky,peers over the sea-blue cape of her shoulderand looks at me,…
Learning the Year by Heart, by Haiku
By CAMPBELL WRIGHT on April 2026
Autumn Letting go still aches Hands open, leaves touch the ground, Love learns how to fall. Winter Cold keeps every truth, Hope held quiet in…
When sick
By BEN MELLON on April 2026
You must knowThere will be both positives and negatives The positives stem from you not going to school. The negatives stem from you not going…
honeydew & blueberries
By ZADIE WANG on March 2026
Tell me my body can tell timeHours stretching like fabric over my hipsHoneydew skin peeled and ground into sandThat falls along my shoulders And when…
Mooneater, August 2025
By SOL JORDAN on March 2026
Alone, and safe. It’s been a long day. Yet, my body is strangely without ail, and I have little need for dumb shoes up here.…
सर्दी (Sardee)
By PAVAN MYERS on March 2026
White Snow,White Ice,Come as strong winds blow,Though cold earth sufficeBleak Skies,Bleak Air,As heaven cries,And flakes fall fair,Frozen Lake,Frozen Wing,Though we fine hopes makeIn the yesterdays…
eternity
By PAVAN MYERS on March 2026
why fear ending thingsthe universe is a wheeland things come again
Black Knight
By PAVAN MYERS on March 2026
Behold! O’ lost soul,The finest Cavalier,Who has so many lives stole,And spread such death and fear,Behold its ebon armor,And ‘low its carmine steed,And on it…
1/25/26
By MIRIAM DEGEORGE on March 2026
At a certain point, you will lower your head to the pen.There will be a man speaking to the world as you write. It is…
Red Brick Walls
By JULIA KLEINBERG on March 2026
Do I remember this place? There are holes in my sightWhere I know ghosts still perchSitting on beanbags orcriss-crossed on the floor Still, my fingertips…
Exodus
By FELIX FARIS on March 2026
There is a light that soothesan easy lie does the samePart seas of sicknessNo sister sings of victoryI’ll make myself a graven imageWorship pearls and…
She Sells Seashells
By ELEANOR CLARK on March 2026
Content warning: death. She sells seashells by the sea shore. The sky is still dark and the beach is quiet. Only a faint light and…
Raspberries
By DANI FALK on March 2026
a little hatfor my pinky fingeror a thick blanketfor a chocolate chipthe color of love and rosesand hatred and bloodand my tongue I want to…