Cost of Living – James Roach
Cost of Living I compose obituaries in my head for friends who can’t promise they’ll grow older. She is survived by her question mark spine, genes that never fit right, and the truth that co-pays can’t buy serotonin. In lieu of flowers, please send someone to clean up the gun powder. I wonder if it’s […]
Kiwi Science – Nadine Klassen
2023 Best of the Net Finalist Bio – Nadine Klassen (she/her) is a German poet and author of the chapbook Bruises, Birthmarks & Other Calamities (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2021). Her work has appeared in The Red Lemon Review, Midway Journal, GASHER and others. She lives in her hometown with her fiancé and their dog.
In the world that still holds you living – Syble Heffernan
In the world that still holds you living I’ve shown you the Tropical Sno on 56th and Old Cheney. We go almost every night after dinner. We get the YOLO every time; they pick the flavors, we get the next one free. Our version of shopping is wandering between hundreds of shades of green […]
There is the Thick July Heat – Alyssa May Trifone
THERE IS THE THICK JULY HEAT, and then there are the boys, standing waist-deep in a party of lily pads, hollering my name. They are begging me to throw my body off the bridge, down to their hungering teenage hands waiting in the river below. Being wanted is a faraway myth I am still not […]
star jelly – dana lyn
star jelly my gender is astral jelly; the nascent remains of a celestial body crash landed on earth, discovered and marveled at. stella terrae in Latin, imbued with healing magic from the Milky Way. my mythos reaches each continent and every age. my gender is star rot; slime hunted for by witches, amidst […]
