NOV 2021 / ISSUE 11

 

BOOK ONE: THE ROOTS

by Sabrina Tom

The pleasure was as intense as the flowers were magnificent, and the trees could not have asked for anything more, and Goda saw that this relationship…

HELP THE SHOOTS GROW, PULL THEM

by Ploi Pirapokin

She had been dreaming of fluffy white rabbits, grazing vast, lush fields of green. “That’s how the Star People come to be among us,” Sprout had said…

MOURNING

by Adam Swanson

To exhume a body, all you must do is breathe yourself out— perhaps early, in the morning, as the sun wakes somewhere in a watery desert or at the…

Blind Spot

by Carol Fischbach

We wondered between us if the fawn had been abandoned. Was she okay? Where was her mama? What should we do? Johann left the room, took…

ALONE

by Anne Liu Kellor

A Chinese restaurant. Seattle, 1979, I am four. I sit in a red booth by the window. Outside the sky is dark. Light drops of rain hit the pavement…

Tape No. 3

by Shan Hur

Shan Hur’s sculptural interventions disrupt the viewer’s perception of the white cube as an art container, directly implicating the gallery space as…