The Art of Haiku | Ewa Mazierska

"As a teenager Jack suffered from what Freud called ‘the narcissism of small differences’ in relation to his brother. He blew these differences up in search of his path out of Jim’s shadow until he discovered that the differences were in fact huge..."

The Alchemy of the Eye | Ian Goodale

"He felt as if his soul had been seized hold of, gripped tight by the ivory fingers and wrung dry until he fell headlong into the grave, limp and defeated by the obsession inspired by this thing the woman had shown him..."

Six Words | Kate Foley

Kate Foley is a queer artist, editor, and poet living in Minneapolis. Recognized by the Academy of American Poets, her work has been featured in Yes Poetry, Voicemail Poems, and Rising Phoenix Review, among others.

No-brainer | Jay Barnica

"Let’s play a quick game, class: / list everything new under the sun. / Think cloud-based collaboration. / Think even bigger. / Thankfully, the story can now be told / on a planetary scale..."

Pigeon | William C. Blome

William C. Blome's work has previously appeared in Poetry London, PRISM International, In Between Hangovers, Fiction Southeast, Roanoke Review, and The California Quarterly.

Thrust Fault | Vivian Ia

"our lot was labor / & liquor / made us feel bigger / than monstrosities, sooty / for the tazing / amoebic cancerous darlings / whispers from lineage to lineage, / clutching their pain..."