FEB 2025 / ISSUE 42

Custody of the Tongue

by April Dauscha

In the series Custody of the Tongue, intimate, videos capture acts of binding, veiling, and consuming, each serving as my confessions…

Teetering

by Isra Hassan

America’s sticky   Grapes of wrath, 
fingers, linger, coddled by broken
tracing constraints thumbs, yearn… 

The Bully

by Abby Vines-Lopez

in the hospital with me there was a tall blonde boy with angry scrapes on the back of his neck, sockless in his institutional orange…

Hymen Bike

by Ella deCastro Baron

I’m a bony brown girl, tipping absolutely NO scales with my forty-four pound body at ten years old. Fifth grade is when my hips…

This Halloween You’re Dressing Up as a Nun With a Gun

by Raja'a Khalid

Ummi wants you to look your best. She's rented the habit from a professional costume…

What I told the generations of a strange illness

by Bec Bell-Gurwitz

it had to do with units of time 
of squares of dollars
of birth orders of birds migrating…