Jan 2021 / ISSUE 4

The Kissing Games

by Tammy Delatorre

Being called “girl” reminds her of when she was ten, her parents pitched a tent in the backyard for a sleepover. She and her cousins must have felt…

by Grace Loh Prasad

The border between one year and the next slowly unfurls; the first day of the new year wrapping its arms around the globe with Tonga celebrating…

by Sagirah Shahid

Before the Belmont report when the U.S. Government gathered 600 Black men
who tilled Alabama’s blood stained terrain with…

by Kirin Khan

I know how it looked. We had just buried my younger brother the day before, but just after five Saturday evening in late February, I zipped my…

by Shane Rowlands

Shoeless on a humid night, we ride the funky bassline around our kitchen table. Jen is fifty and we boogie. Two of us together and each in our…

by Samira Abbassy

I was born in Ahwaz, Iran and moved to London, UK as a child. After graduating from Canterbury College of Art, I showed my work in London for…