A Villanelle Rotten like an apple, we were doomed from the very start. Mangled like a sickly cat, I hurl…
Prelude
After Frank O’Hara on that Friday night you queued up for fried chicken your jacket was beige your reflection softened…
Memoir: Tales From the Classroom
It all began with my glasses and the two front teeth that jutted out of my mouth. These other tiny…
Exhibit LA
When I went to LA, I’d walk to the local store every morning. I’d take the corn dog off the…
Book Review: A Chapbook About Nothing – Scott Cumming
Scott Cumming’s ‘A Chapbook About Nothing’ illustrates the feeling of being a newborn adult. Assumptions of stability trail behind us…
Diary Entry/17.01.22
Every few months, I wonder if I’m a blowfish whose bursts of inflation go unnoticed by the other fish, but…
The Cutting Room Floor
It is almost 6 pm, and I am listening to Jay McInerney’s ‘Bright Lights, Big City’ on audiobook. The evenings…
Hemingway’s Paris: An Entity of Its Own
Hemingway’s ‘A Moveable Feast’ is a novel that was published posthumously. The book was born from a journal found in…
Violent Delights
hotel rooms with you burn like vodka carpets / my conscience cannot bear the hardship we left behind but then…
Discussion of the Day: The Mother’s Paradox
For most of us, the idea that the sole purpose of women was to have children has long since died.…
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