ISSUE â„– 

05

a literary journal in multiple time zones

May. 2024

ISSUE â„– 

05

a literary journal in multiple time zones

May. 2024

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Father Enver

It was 1985, and Enver Hoxha had died that spring. Everyone in the village clamored for news...

So You Pick Up The Plates

It was August, and I was supposed to get a matching tattoo with Aimee, who I’d met...

Vivian Delmar

For twelve years, Eleanor had been telling people her parents were dead, ...

The Love Lives of People Who Look Like Kal Penn

A woman sits next to Arunabh in the flight. She carries a bottle of green water in...

Storm Chasers

I was staging a bank heist on the floor of my room when my mother knocked on...

The Bride

In my nightmare, Sasha is in the sliding car in front of me on the Wonder Wheel....

The Stuntman’s Lament

The stuntman punches his alarm clock and hurls himself downstairs. He smashes through breakfast and showers on a plank above a live electric eel....

South of Gold Mountain

The sunset is smeared with a molten drip. An angry blush—it burns for minutes, and then you...

Nico, etc.

I was living where I’d been born, in a town outside of Boston, in a house for...

Remain Open To It, Without Naming It

Excitable Matèo Joseph, security guard, would be the first to enter the ninth-floor elevator of St. Peter’s...