Author: Sumac Lit Mag
Issue 1 (25) Issue 1 Poetry (14) Issue 1 Prose (11) Issue 2 (25) Issue 2 Poetry (19) Issue 2 Short Story (6) Issue 3 (31) Issue 3 Poetry (21) Issue 3 Prose (10) Issue 4 (25) Issue 4 Poetry (13) Issue 4 Prose (11) Letter from the Editors (4) News (1) Poetry (66) Prose (32) Short Story (6)
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I Have Started to Go Out More
Now I actually leave my room, Every day, I hop on the black train, No matter if it is sun or rain, I lug…
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Prismatic
Track 1 – Suburbia Muddy swamp water stares me in the face, my reflection suffocated by petroleum-thick sludge. Funny how it used to seem…
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Letters to Milena
“I hardly remember the details, just that we kept on merging into one another, I was you, you were me.” Franz Kafka, Letters to…
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The Robot
The Robot is a perfect machine. It has to be. It works to surpass its limited programming. The Robot strives to exceed expectations at…
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Falling Behind
I am full of cracks; fissures in my palms dry and ragged, revealing the rot blooming beneath my skin When I try to grasp…
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Striking Jackfruit
Father begins the ritual, dousing his hands and his tarnished scimitar in oil. He brings the blade down, breaking coarse green skin.The knife is…
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Girls in White
There are girls in white along the wall, with their painted faces watching. Sculpted ones too— marble eyes following me around the aisles. Their…
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Faint
I didn’t feel the cold metal When it bludgeoned my chin My bones made no sound When they clattered To the brittle linoleum My…
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At The Hour of Our Death
The rough unsanded floorboards drew blood from her knees. She rejoiced, mistaking it for blood from her womb, before realizing its true source. She…
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The Infestation
The Outside Mr. and Mrs. Davidson lived in a bungalow in a cul-de-sac, right across from a house occupied by Ms. Ray and her…