ISSUE № 

04

a literary journal in multiple time zones

Apr. 2023

ISSUE № 

04

a literary journal in multiple time zones

Apr. 2023

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Personhood

Juniper needs to look good but not too good. They figure some foundation, a little blush, and a touch of mascara will do the trick. Oh, and they need to take some scissors to those Eugene Levy eyebrows of theirs, not that they don’t like them but the husbands, well, not so much. Juniper has already attended several tanning sessions, dyed their hair blonde, and achieved the tousled beach look that the...

Personhood

Juniper needs to look good but not too good. They figure some foundation, a little blush, and a touch of mascara will...

The Ugly Sisters

When my mother died, I turned to books, reading with an obsessiveness I hadn’t experienced since my teenage years. I started with...

The Ugly Sisters

When my mother died, I turned to books, reading with an obsessiveness I hadn’t experienced since my teenage years. I started with the classics—Barthes and Didion, C.S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed—before moving on to Rilke and other poets, and then the memoirs on mother loss, some of which were written by poets. I soon broadened my reading to the death of a child, widows’ memoirs, grisly accounts of stillbirths and genetic disorders....

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