He folded his belongings in the tangerine sunset by Meryl Perez (20) My grandfather had fat calluses on his fingers and toes. His hands flexed into a skeleton of veins that were verdigris on his brass skin. He would wake up before the sun could tan the streets and would split the bursting seam of […]
auf wiedersehen spiegeltent by Zenobia Frost (24) 1. the circus is gone big top stripped to bone wide-load giraffe skeleton canters in smoke and hammers collapses collapses ghosts of their shimmering crushed into clay at first light we steal glances carnies disguised as men unravel canvas for one last act The Great Vanishment 2. we […]
Leaving a moribund behind by Anders Villani (22) Now turbid cooling towers and cliff-top chateaus flash by, now gluts of steam scud over my windscreen; the stone villas and bicycles, the rusted ships reposing in the yard, the fog in the foothills of Le Mugel – edifices called from screaming silence. Call me the lap […]
Melting Ice by Violet Macdonald (17) I didn’t even see the rope break. I suddenly felt myself plummet down the glacier, the icy wind rushing past my face. I fell through a break in the ice, planted precariously in the snow, and landed on a rough bed of fallen stalactites. My head spun as it […]
Wake by Jessica Yu (17) And so you crept inside my house one day and said that you would stay. I said okay and lay down to sleep upon the floor. My bones sank but a heap of coat hangers and skin that followed close. I closed my eyes and did not wake till morning. […]
Laika by Mitch Cunningham (22) So Julie went to see him for the first time in a year. The next town over, an hour or so on the new highway. Early evening sun caught in her eyes, the dust on her jacket shoulder. Stuffed beige files, stacked a foot high on her passenger seat – […]
Cumulus by Olga Joanna Kotnowska (24) Behind the fence that runs along the track, tussocks of sugarcane rise; from a mess of dry leaves, bright green blades push up and with sharp tips point, reach higher than the top wire that stretches between the rotting trunks that hold the fence together. Along this way it […]
This is who I am Things hadn’t always been this way. There had been a time when Jamie lived an ordinary life. School, annoying siblings, unremarkable pets, all that sort of thing. Just your everyday life in mainstream suburbia. Sometimes, on days like today, that old life seemed almost attractive. Hell, it always seemed to […]
Forget Things hadn’t always been this way. There had been a time when Jamie lived an ordinary life. School, annoying siblings, unremarkable pets, all that sort of thing. Just your everyday life in mainstream suburbia. Sometimes, on days like today, that old life almost seemed attractive. Yeah, compared to the way things were now, it […]
Pipeline Nostaglia Things hadn’t always been this way. There had been a time when Jamie lived an ordinary life. School, annoying siblings, unremarkable pets, all that sort of thing. Just your everyday life in mainstream suburbia. Sometimes, on days like today, that old life almost seemed attractive. Jamie sighed as he remembered the fun he […]
