recent writing
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One True Friend
“‘So,’ he said. ‘I guess this is how it’s gonna be. But there’s one condition. You can’t run off on me, okay? If you’re in, you’re in for good. Got that?’ She blew her breath out of her nose and closed her eyes.” In Mike Ducak’s story, “One True Friend,” a scarred man faces the possible loss of the only living being who has been healing him.
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from “What’s Good?”
“[H]ello, poetry / passing by,” Jason Koo writes in “Be Less,” one of two sections from his latest long poem, “I’m not sure where you will go but you / are always there.” His lines are plaintive and comic, conversational and grave, as he seeks, amid the daily mayhem of parenting young kids, to rekindle poetry’s “bolting birth of a beyond.” Here’s proof that he does.
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Revolutionary
Asya Graf’s autobiographical essay chronicles a journey to the past that kindles hope for the future: “I find myself summoning an ancestor […]: a phone call, a voice on the other end, decades and countries converging in that moment of contact. The mythic ghost in my family turning into an elderly woman who’s vividly alive. And who knows a thing or two about being a revolutionary.”
from the archive
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The Cuddler
Is perfect sex on the perfect piece of furniture really too much to ask? A new story from Trillium Book Award finalist Emily Schultz.
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The Classics Illustrated Comics Project
Five brand-new comics about adaptation, by Kevin Cannon, Pascal Girard, Melissa Mendes, Andrea Tsurumi, and Noah Van Sciver.
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Tarot/Death
“I have to invent him as a little boy / because loving him was grief-stained. // Because living with him was like— / and here I give you a house full of bees.” From Mariah Whelan, a story of violence, legacies, grief, and survival.