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Poetry by Kamden Hilliard: “Goat Theory”

is gruff and tumble. started from the bottom andit’s here. present. accounted for. the Greatestof All Time don’t do their own accounting. they don’tadd up. Icarus flew too close to the sun. Icarusis not a GOAT ‘cause GOATs hear too closeand wonder what the fuck yall’s talkin’ ‘bout.i mean, who hasn’t fantasized abt James Deanand…
Nonfiction: A.A. Balaskovits’ “How I Helped You Fly with Pearls in Your Guts”

You must never doubt the thoughtful cruelty of your childhood. My mother raised butterflies of two sorts: the Monarch with ombré orange wings, and in less quantities, because they take so long to pupate and hatch, black Swallowtails, with blue edges or white spots. I assisted her at a young age, even when my hands…
Anne Champion Poetry: “Anne Sexton Prepares for the End”

After the shoulder heave of a garage door, my body weighs heavy in my shoes,a little slack, a little sagging— it’s no secret time is erasing me, and only vodka can wet my throat.I inhale its pungent punch, the scent familiar in its knock-out discomfort, just as my body is onlyfamiliar when the knots squeeze…
Emily O’Neill: “Preparing My Own Death,” a poem

there’s an obvious difference between Hawthorne & julep strainers, an obvious reason why some people can’t eat pineapple. an obvious recipe for property. for help. for solitude. I can’t stop me from horsehide / can’t suntan the virgin out. I’m shy & nobody believes me. the memorized proof: what’s loud can’t call itself afraid /…
Melissa McDaniel Illustrated Fiction: “Horse Girls”

*Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. Melissa McDaniel writes and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is an editor for tNY Press, and her work has been published in Necessary Fiction, Psychopomp Magazine, Luna Station Quarterly, witch craft mag, Be About It Press, and elsewhere. Image: thefarrierguide.com
“CisWorld,” a speculative essay by Torrey Peters

If there were only trans people in the world, would the monsters in horror movies be cisgender people? The way that cis people have their monsters and villains in transgender characters like Buffalo Bill, or Michael Caine’s character in Dressed to Kill, or Angela in Sleepaway Camp, or Brother Martin in the X-Files episode “Gender…
Three Poems by David Wojciechowski

[In this dream I’m running a dream farm] In this dream I’m running a dream farm and glue factory. Dreams run everywhere. Even into the glue factory. One dream is on fire. This dream burns down the farm, the factory. The whole site is smoldering. People smell it from miles away. They wander wafting air.…
Sara Adams: Three Erasures

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Head Librarian Erasure from Stephen King’s It Love Poem Erasure from Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea His Heart Was Shit Erasure from Stephen King’s It Sara Adams is the author of three chapbooks: Think Like a B (SOd Press), Poems for Ivan (Porkbelly Press)…
“Principia // Love Song for Faye Valentine,” a poem by T.A. Noonan

She is Reagan, Jillian, Cream Dream—the starlet has changed her name again. Freckles silhouetted against the same American bodysuits & foolish heels. Her breasts are perfect models of Newton’s universal gravitation that the vulgar conceive. Over a hundred pornos in her alias, & we are to admit no more causes of natural things. Or she…