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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Us Kids
One February, Mum made me write notes on Scooby-Doo valentines. She called out “run–on sentence” and “comma splice” before ordering me to scratch my…
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Tunnel Market
There were two main rules when in the tunnel market. First and foremost, keep your hands in your pockets and your handbags at home…
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Among The Stones
At night, all you could hear were the voices of the dead. The long–gone, the recently–gone, the unremembered; every voice in the graveyard made…
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The Fever Grove
I wake crouching against rough bark. Taking a few short breaths to center myself in this new realm, echoes of memories tell me the…
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The King of Ithaca
The letter said, “I’m not as pretty as I used to be.” Underneath was written the time his train would arrive…
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Unpunctual Buses and Growing Sideways
The expectation that my first step on campus this fall would declaw the kindred estrangement that had latched onto me since 2020 was one…
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How Far We’ve Come
If you said, long ago when we were / young, when the Sun flew like an idol / and mothered us, that we’d crouch…
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Wistful Seasons
sunscreen-covered cheeks mark late spring / when blisters blossom on palms and a waft / of overripe coconut dances with freshly cut grass /…
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Your Favourite Red Pen
Amid the achromic / graphite pencils and the fine-tip / washable markers and the / ballpoint gel pens, you pick / her out from…
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Grocery List
I started collecting them / like a middle-aged woman / collects coupons / saving them / like mementos / of strangers whose faces I’ve…