Mandy Bach care home fish tank the repurposed wooden church pew sits perpendicularto the tank—we have to turn a full ninety to watch themglide through the clear water, a kind of half-floating.the only thing that dies faster than old peopleare fish; we place bets on which ones make it through the night.usually, the ones that […]
Category: Winter 2024
Anne Champion – Triggered Memories: Grief
Anne Champion Triggered Memories: Grief When I was 15, the most beautiful boy in the worldcame to my window, throwing pebbles, asking me to come out. He’d tell me he saw what I was doing at night, peeping.After I kissed him, he told me he lost his virginity breaking into a girl’s house, raping her, […]
Aidan Daniel – Roadkill Astronaut
Aidan Daniel Roadkill Astronaut small baby stiff-bodied upside-down and on its neck, stunted little-limbed creature kit with soft fur legs stuck out like an overstuffed animal (what a way to go) side-of-the-road wide mouth crying asking, calling to skyscraper-space somebody come and find me the first man to float freely in space (the way to […]
