Category: Online Issues

Not the Victim

J. L. Bermúdez Always at the same time, the green van with yellow letters. A man, tall and dark, hair parted like a curtain. A cigarette in his hand. I can’t recall if he is handsome, or just...

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Shelbey Leco

You Hurt Me Mixed media collage Untitled Mixed media collage Shelbey Leco is a native New Orleanian artist in her thirties. Her art style is heavily influenced by her grandmother at a very early age...

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2025 Spring Fiction Contest Winner Two Burials by Jumaana Abdu 2025 Spring Nonfiction Contest Winner Notes on Property by Esther Ra 2025 Spring Poetry Contest Winner Bestiary by Seth Peterson Read...

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Self-Portrait as Baby

Erik Moyer I am born. I’m not thrilled about it. Two weeks overdue and another twenty hours of crimson labor later, I am at last evicted from the womb, a whopping ten-pounder. My mother is whisked...

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Electra Pelias

Weaponizing Cuteness Fabric, foam, digital manipulation Electra Pelias is a multidisciplinary artist whose scrappy, heartfelt practice blends sculpture, fiber, printmaking, and digital media. She...

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Deboning

Alex Bortell I shed fistfuls. Natural poacher, confused when I’m born finless. You hold two catfish by the gills. Spear me in the Muskegon. The Cougar’s ashtray lined with buds. I sift through...

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Picking at the Nail

Megan Eralie-Henriques Look closely at my hands. Notice how I’ve shredded the skin around my jagged nails. Look closer. See my fingernails picking at wounds, scarcely able to scab over. Bleeding,...

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Larissa Monique Hauck

To Grow, You Have to Look at Your Roots Acrylic on canvas Through visual storytelling, Larissa Monique Hauck confronts the complexities of queer feminine identity contrasted with the resilience of...

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Shell Game

Apollo Chastain “You can win a pistol!!!” I remove the white chiclet gum,       which I have been chewing so long it’s lost flavor,   from under my tongue. I hand...

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Mysterious Rooms

Jaime Gill September Well, this was a bloody stupid idea.  About two months ago, you said, half-joking I think, that I should hire a therapist.  “Don’t be absurd,” I said. “I’m...

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