ISSUE № 

11

a literary journal in multiple time zones

Nov. 2024

ISSUE № 

11

a literary journal in multiple time zones

Nov. 2024

Regions

Gargoyle

One summer you came to stay with us for good. Your mom had up and left and you’d shown up at Abuela’s door with...

Snap

At lunchtime, the fifth and sixth grade girls run around the grassy field. From a distance, it looks like they’re playing tag, pursuing and...

Creatures in the Woods

The air is swimming with mosquitoes, hormones, pheromones, hope. You are listening to your section leader, Liddy, read the instructions for the big canoe trip....

Celestial Bodies

The photographs could have been of anyone. They had been uploaded from a digital camera onto the shared desktop computer in the Soho apartment, left...

The Catullus Chainsaw Massacre

Humans don’t have one pose, one image or one reflection. They can bend and crystallize, endure, fossilize and decay. They can prune, spoil, initiate...

Similar Bodies

Family Portrait—1993 The large red bow on the collar of my dress nearly covered my mouth. If it hadn’t, my lips would have been blurred...

The Pelican

“Now notice, Maddie, the subtle ways they compete, even when there are no females around.” My sister hands me the binoculars and takes a...

Straight Up Now Tell Me

I was halfway through my third-grade exposé on the vulcanized civilization of Pompeii when the principal irrupted into the classroom with the new boy....

Tourists

We’d been traveling so long that we lost track of which country we were in. It didn’t scare me at first. My husband and...

Rent

Not long after we placed an ad for a new roommate, a wolf moved into our...