Poetry by Purvi Shah
Burning is ocean shared
Issue No. 11
Poetry
Poetry by Ashley Colley
from “The Cow Suit”
Poetry by Taylor Cornelius
Rattlesnake Tamer | Taylor and I | On an Evening in Crown Heights
Poetry by Nnadi Samuel
Praise for the Inner Lining of my Morphing Apparel | Nature knows a little about Slave Trade
Poetry by Erich Slimak
Dream Home | Dream Home
Poetry by Jose Hernandez Diaz
The Rebel | Mars
Poetry by Matt Mitchell
Three Poems
Poetry by Kimberly Grey
Filmic | Patterning
Fiction
“Ian van Athen, or The Art of Reading” by Iana Boukova, Trans. by Ekaterina Petrova
And from the thousands of words that define us, not a single word has just one paternity. . .
“Autobiography of a Bedsheet” by Chelsea L. Cobb
Why cotton?
Because that’s what it feels like. . .
“Northern Beggar” by Jiaqi Kang
Shifu looks at the stream behind her compound, contaminated from the mines, thin and weak, and still thinks she can drink from it. She says freedom is flight. She says water is life. . .
“Upside Down Frown” by Jarred Thompson
Maybe Keano’s electroceutical fed the neural concerto of Aanya’s break-up into larger networks of perspective. She couldn’t decide which was better: fixation or detachment?
Nonfiction
“I Had Loved Him Like My Father” by Shalini Singh
Even a bookstall harbors the energy of a huge bookshop, books falling off its edges. You and I fell off a bench once. Gravity tricked me into thinking that it was fate, love, us, falling. . .
“Three Hundred Days: A Story of Likeness” by Youna Kwak
Every good story starts with a dead mother. Nothing worth doing is possible until she dies.
“Ayat” by Ayeh Bandeh-Ahmadi
She stands at the mirror, staring at her reflection for what seems like a long time, waiting to see how quickly the puffiness will go down, learning that the answer is not fast enough. . .