Sara Verstynen Extermination Nine years old, shirtless in summer. I rise from my room’s shag carpet, starvation diet a j-hook through my sight. The old tuxedo cat, heavy with babies, [...]

Todd Davis Alverdia Considers the Pillar of Salt that Was Lot’s Wife To turn to salt simply for lookingover your shoulder,for rememberinga friend or cousinwhose house sitson the lip of [...]

Thu Anh Nguyen My Mother Sizes Me You came to me shaking, cradling tissue in your palm so carefully that I didn’t recognize your softness, open to me for once. [...]

Roman Johnson Be Thou My Vision When I was eight, my father kept his car running while the gas exhaust fumes filled the air of my cousin’s apartment complex. He [...]

Jacob Sheetz-Willard First Principles You start from the top down, clearing dust from the tank lid, then draw your torn bath towel over the flush handle, across the tank’s vertical [...]