AUG 2023 / ISSUE 26

STREAM

by Linda Sormin

What is worth risking for things to get juicy, rare, ripe? What might be discovered on the verge of things going bad?

HOMECOMING

by Siobhán Daffy

I watched the land unspool and thought about meteorites, the fleeting beauty of a shooting star. How strange that some lives barely last an hour…

LUDICROUS

by Cristina Olivetti

You can ask my friends—I drove Ludicrous for all of them. But it wasn’t that fun. People felt nauseous and knocked around. I get it. They weren’t falling apart…

SISTER

by Marina Gross-Hoy

Mother Mary is my sister. Shocking to say, but she’s the one who said it. She looked down at me from the stained glass window during a mass...

PASSPORT

by Lina Ramona Vitkauskas

—For my mother, Zita, upon hearing her terminal diagnosis
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THE WILD WEST

by Hannah Harlee

My best friend lives in San Francisco, in a room in Polk Gulch that fits a double bed and a table for $1100 a month. Weekdays he gets up early...