ISSUE № 

12

a literary journal in multiple time zones

Dec. 2024

ISSUE № 

12

a literary journal in multiple time zones

Dec. 2024

Regions

Modern Science

The miracles are brought to the zoo in three black crates held aloft by three forklifts. The crates are settled on a patch of...

Trapunto

The first injection I ever did was in a sheep’s rump. A friend of my mother’s had a flock whose wool she sheared and...

Reappraisal

There were four tall men sent to complete the reappraisal. One of them, Devin, was the lawyer—we’d met before, five years ago, at the...

Black Ribbons, Black Water, Black Sky

A week after Jack’s decapitation, Peter drove Jack’s old truck through the San Fernando Valley and straight into the Los Angeles River. Jack’s truck...

Summer

The summer I turned nine, I spent with my grandparents. Thin and trusting, nails bitten down to the nub, hair so dry it could...

The Missing Pieces

Elodie The abutter never entered my mind. The house was a good deal. It went on the market on Memorial Day weekend—a motivated seller with...

Eartha Kitt

The difference between camp and kitsch is that camp knows death and kitsch doesn’t. Don’t laugh. People can be sorted into these two teams...

Homecoming

At the age of thirty, you decide to go home because the circumstances of your life allow you to do so, and like everyone...

Sisyphus

After graduating from college, Henry found a job in Stuttgart, a city whose industries had been updated, in German fashion, to combat the onset...