Mortuary Science
Terri Linn Davis (read Terri’s interview about this poem with our Poetry Editor, Ian O’Brien, here) Terri Linn Davis has an MFA […]
Category: issue 5
Robbie was here
Adele Rickerby Robbie was here ‘84 Flick of a thin folded foreskin, a ring of rubber peeled, turning, curving, splaying and spraying […]
When Pigs Fly
Kyla Houbolt The President identifies as an alien shill. He has trouble falling down stairs. And up them. I mean, he forgot […]
postpartum rage
Vic Nogay in a vision, i hit her. her giggles go silent, her lights short out, the synapses fold as the twinkle […]
Statistically Speaking
Daniel Guy Baldwin There is a fifty-one percent chance of being born a boy, forty-nine percent chance of being born a […]
The Weeping Woman
Claire Hampton I watch the man at the table gnawing his dirty fingernails, pungent sweat darkening the underarms of his denim […]
Sorry For What I Said When We Were Putting Up the Tent
Helen Gordon It was the smell, shaken out with the crisped corpses of last summer’s earwigs; musty, with a tang of mould […]
Workaholic
Katja Sass It’s 9.45 pm. Everyone’s gone except a 30-something woman sitting alone in her 2m2 office cubicle, finishing off the last […]
The Registrar
Abi Hennig He tucks a stray curl behind her ear. She leans into him, rests her head on his shoulder as he […]
The Obligatory Alligator
Jesse Millner Last night I dreamed I drove through an army base I’d never been to before. It was huge and filled […]
The Galactic Well at the Edge of Existence
Riley Cross Eo stirred the well with a silver spoon. The waters of space and time rippled in response. He waited for […]
Star Guard
Todd Clay Stuart On the first night of the comet, Beth looks up between the austere poplar trees in their back […]
Little Limbs
Leonie Rowland He came to me on his seventy-fifth birthday, when his hands were soft enough to save. They had kept […]
Laughing Tiger Buckles Slowly: A T’ai Chi Lesson
Tom Walsh T’ai chi is going slowly. The instructor’s cat died and we spent a lot of time talking about that. He […]
Dentata Non Grata
Kate Doughty The first tooth came, and the rest of them followed. This would not have been an issue if I […]
Brand-new Blue Sponge to Clean Up After a Memorable Dinner for Two
S.A. Greene The man is sitting facing the window. The woman sits down, facing the man. The man has assembled the salad. […]
In the City of Philandering Flowerpots
Tara Campbell How, exactly, does a flowerpot make love? And how does a flowerpot betray? Technically, a pot is a vessel, […]
Illumination
Sarah McPherson When I am fired, I take the angle-poise lamp from the edge of the desk. I am not sure why […]
Convenience Store Babies
Rosaleen Lynch Convenience store babies were all the rage back then. Came with pipettes the size of turkey basters. Advertised in […]
Amicable
Nathan Willis Say that you need some time alone. It’ll be easier this way. Suggest that your partner visit her […]
