Prepping by Lisa Criswell
I tell JP we need to find a doctor for the commune. I discuss with Amy where we should look for a plot of land. I bookmark a podcast entitled “Breaking Down: Collapse.” I grow herbs. This year, maybe tomatoes. This year, maybe I bring the tomatoes to my neighbors, whose names I do not […]
pink by jp thorn
i held my tongue until it became fistfuls of blood, offered it as a sacrifice to the woman whose abortion i avoided because she was yellow & stale, too pathetic to cut me out like a cyst when i was inevitable, constructing myself in the womb with pieces of shell & glue she would swallow. […]
bartender at the end of the world by Denise Buitre
after the dungeons & dragons player’s handbook, 5th edition currency means nothing here, last call for the end of the world. a stiff drink for a stiffer body; atrocities piling on one after another, so much so that there’s a website called genocidewatch.com. like bodies of children who will never get proper burials– the […]
An Ode to Witnessing by Melissa Mella
for my yoga teacher training cohort We walk in silence. We walk down my street, past my apartment, to the park where I take my dog nearly every day. This park, with its pretend pirate ship on a playground often brimming with the laughter of happy children. This park, like so many parks: a […]
There Are So Many Ways This Story Could Have Gone by Sarah Hanson
To the son or daughter who saved my life when I ended yours: they say the most dangerous time for a woman is when she leaves her abuser. Ain’t that some shit. She finally, finally musters the courage to save herself, and that brave, brave leaving could be the very thing that kills her. The […]
