Siege by Yu-Hsuan Wu ‘Siege’ It discovers the secret of siege is not being deeply besieged, but opening up a whole world without anything treasurable inside Yu-Hsuan Wu is a Taiwanese poet, dancer, and poetic filmmaker who uses public spaces for...
Fiction by Monica Raymond & Art by Milojka Beutz Art by Milojka Beutz Courtesy of Förderkreis Milojka Beutz, Malerin e.V. LION IN THE LIVING ROOM by Monica Raymond Today, again. No way to predict, not world events, not the weather. No emerging, just emerged as if...
Dirty Little Secrets of a Workaholic by Anna Sorokina Our modern capitalist society seems to share a collective secret – how stressed and overworked we are. “Busy” is undoubtedly good, we tell ourselves, and there is no room for joy, and pure existence....
Poem by Angela Gaito-Lagnese & Art by Olga Alexander Skinny Girl by Angela Gaito-Lagnese Daughter-mother bonding over Dexatrim. Sleep on an empty stomach, she says. Starving is the one thing they can’t take away. I am twelve. We clip neatly printed diet plans ...
Poem by Kayla Schwab & Art by Ilaria Cortesi Laundry Day Great Expectations by Kayla Schwab They ran out of flour at the bodega, so I bought a tub of Tollhouse cookie dough. I tried to let myself down easy as I put the raspberry jam and confectioner’s sugar back...
Poem by Trish Hopkinson & Art by Lisa Marie Vlietstra Art by Lisa Marie Vlietstra Bodies are Secrets, the softer spots, where the skin gives way like an overripe plum, the inside nooks of my elbows, the backs of my knees, behind my ear lobes—tender in pursuit ...
