Category: Issue 4
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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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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Bus Stop Ballerina
O, you sly thing! Scooting up to me with cane and grace you spoke, hushed mumbled mutterings, you spoke of the Dalai Lama, and…
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What they saw
Noah: I saw her. During morning school tryouts, somewhere during laps, honestly my favorite part because there’s no way to embarrass myself, I caught…
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A Lifetime with Words
Lillian hears a voice but doesn’t know where it is coming from. Before this interruption, she was enjoying a late afternoon mug of tea…
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Odd Sacrifices
Babe, you lost a toe on the catamaran. The sea swept it up and chewed it down to the bone. The only thing left…
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The Ants in the Walls
*Formatting best viewed on desktop* James Brennan is a second year English Major, concentrating in Creative Writing at Carleton University. James has fallen in…
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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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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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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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Learning Without Apology: On IPV, Knowledge, and Becoming
What Grows in Isolation I did not expect the world to be so quiet when I finally felt ready to step back into it.…