FEB 2021 / ISSUE 5

(BLACK) BOY WONDER

by Jamar Nicholas

Some would find it odd that American popular culture is geek culture. The time when only weirdo shut-ins cared about comic books, superheroes, giant dragons…

TO ALL THE ROCK BOYS I’VE LOVED

by Eva Recinos

During a high school summer job at my mom’s office, I made friends with one of my mom’s co-workers, and we talked music. I mentioned my interest in Audioslave, how…

Powdered Sugar

by Roe McDermott

I didn’t want another long-distance relationship. Years of moving between Ireland and America meant that I had too many under my belt already, and the last one…

Cynthia’s CD Collection

by Tom Kiefer 

From 2003-2014, I worked part-time as a janitor at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in the Sonoran Desert. I mopped the floors, took out the…

The Bylaws of Male and Female Friendships

by Kat Lewis

Jin once told Imani that she walked in her heels the way a cow limped through its own shit. “I don’t know…

Fawn Industrial Complex

by Nay Saysourinho

i don’t know how to not be prey 

waiting in the tall grass or 

  in the shadow