A queer Lovecraftian love story
Wally Tigerland
The Growth of a Nation
A speech on the greatest threat facing our country.
Mudman
Mudman follows a young man temporarily called Mickey attempting to escape his past and identity. But the past has a way of catching up, and in Mickey’s case, it may be particularly muddy…
Saturn Devouring His Son
Two office workers at a tech company undergo an experimental procedure to eliminate hunger, and find themselves grappling with a hunger of a different kind.
The Horny Castrato
An orphan whose testicles never dropped is adopted by nuns. He pursues a musical career in Austria and New York but only progresses so far.
Dissecting Destacarse
Rene Camarillo is an East Los Angeles born and raised creative who produces textiles and handcrafted apparel with themes of immigrant realities, neglected labor, and critique on the social engagement of fast fashion industry practices.
Charity Shop Evangelists
This piece interrogates the purpose of faith in giving people a continued sense of purpose in America: a culture of perennial novelty that seeks to discard people when they are unable to find a place in the narrow routine of its population. This essay also opens up a further interrogation of one of the biggest problems facing our culture: how do we resist the urge to dispose of people, as we do our used items? And when people have been disposed of, how do they survive? Robert examines it through the behavior of these charity shop evangelists, while also examining his own relationship to this religious community as a queer man.
Napoleon
A young boy wakes up one day to find that everything he touches turns into Napoleon.
Persian Looney Tunes
Torn between the constraints of old tradition and the radical modernism in a box set of Looney Tunes dvd’s brought to him by a cousin visiting from Miami, Amir reconciles the tension of his background within intransigent, punk art.
This Is Not A Watermelon
With some help from you, reliable sources, and our editorial team we have put together a brief guide for learning about what is currently happening in Palestine, around the world, and what we can do to support people in the face of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
We Can Forget It For You
An experimental fiction story laid out as a medical form for memory erasure, filled out by a person who has just lost their husband in a tragic way that haunts them. Highlighting the power of grief and memory, with some light critique on the American medical system, the author hopes readers will find familiarity, empathy, and a little bit of horror in Alex’s ordeal and what they are willing to sacrifice.
What Was Barbie Made For?Â
Where does the film, and by extension, the doll, fit into our discussions of feminism, capitalism, and nostalgia?
Why Do Movie Audiences Love Suicide Bombing?
There’s something strange about the way Hollywood celebrates explosive martyrdom.
Mungo
A collection of short, somewhat surreal poems about a little guy called ‘MUNGO’ who invents things.
Why We Made Realpolitik
Realpolitik is a space for the typically excluded young and outspoken voices to share more complex pieces of writing, like personal essays and op-eds, specifically in the always-tumultuous field of politics.
New Landscapes
The intentions of a painter and an environmentalist are pretty similar. Both aim to preserve the landscapes they love.
Rubik’s Cube Therapy
There are 43 quintillion possible configurations on a Rubik’s Cube, and only one of those is correct. The cube functions as a distraction from the messiness of the world.
