MAY 2022 / ISSUE 16

aftermath of obliteration oF eternity

by Ryleigh Wann

In an honest voice, she told me she loved me—one of her many confessions disguised as apologies, repeated during nights like this that blur together. I tried leading her to bed…

Won’t Someone Think Of The Women?

by Amy Estes

Confession: I wasn’t pro-choice for a long time. While I left the church and my beliefs behind when I was 19, I couldn’t let go of being that…

yo También

by Rosemary Meza-DesPlas

Rosemary Meza-DesPlas was born and raised in the Dallas, Texas suburb of Garland. Her mother, from Allende (Coahuila), Mexico, came to the United States as a migrant farm worker; her father grew up in…

Birds Like Us

by Tammy Heejae Lee

Once she had buried Rachel, Grace tore the birdcage apart. She took down the beaded strings, the lattice balls, and the colorful swing she had strategically placed around their nest…

untitled cento for Ella, Danny’s mom, from books in his library

by Bazeed

Sensing time’s discrete drops as razor-sharp gemstones
grazing my fingertips
I was talking to my mother when she died….

El Palomero

by Lorena Hernández Leonard

I can’t say that any of us saw our pigeon coop as a home. Whenever he could, Papi traded life at home with his wife and three daughters for the freedom of bachelorhood, spending most…