MAR 2025 / ISSUE 43

Actor at the Zombie Apocalypse Park Tries the Method

by Raja'a Khalid

A pale evening sun seeps in and bathes his aching body as he reaches out for the glass of lukewarm water his beloved Mala has left by his bedside….

The Shape of Hope 

by Cathy Lue-W

You wish not to leave the hospital. Alone in a new country, you have nowhere else to go. When you smile at your child, it is your first betrayal….

Emptiness as the Original Disturbance

by Isra Hassan

This country’s 
imagination maintains
ultimatums,
believing…

Thou Shalt Sabbath

by Ella deCastro Baron

At Sabbath School, we sing Jesus loves me this I know and I fantasize that I’m there, a stick-figure brown girl, a hyphen in the spectrum of red and…

RICH

by Christina Berke

You’ve been so good—so good— that when your friend meets you at the airport, she says, you look like a bird. You smile. No, you say, no, I’ve still got a long way to go. You’re grinning all the way…

Spaces Between Branches

by Nastassja Noell

There is no cell or spore or strand of DNA that can be pointed to as a lichen: it’s the space between the algae and fungi that is the lichen. It is the space…