An exploration of biracial identity, the body, and drug abuse.
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The Glamorous, Immortal Nostalgia of Miss PiggyÂ
Dedicated to Frank Oz and Eric Jacobson. “It’s because I’m a pig isn’t it? … I did not get the nomination for best actress … can you honestly say I am not Oscar material? … In this male chauvinist, non pig world, did you ever think I even stood a...
Mary Oliver’s ‘Her Grave’ and the Bittersweet Joy of DogsÂ
Grief, in these days where the sun is low and white, hits like the snow tires of a heavy Ford pickup. It rolls over me slowly and waits for the weight to break, leaving again with the crunch of gravel and sleet. There are many things to love and cherish, and it is...
Rock, Paper, Cinema
A surreal noir.
The Annotated Kitab al-Azif
A queer Lovecraftian love story
Vulnerability in the Time of Indifference
The kids are afraid of feeling. They, for whatever reason, have an aversion to showing any sign of caring, frustration, sadness, the like. In the minds of young people everywhere there is a block that has been developing and solidifying against the vulnerabilities of...
Coffee Love and Curly Fries
Through a spiraling structure and stream of consciousness-style prose, a teenage boy grapples with his understanding of masculinity, love, and himself.
In Defense of Wendy Cope, Gary Soto, Roisin Kelly, etc.
Writers are dearly in love with oranges. They’ve found metaphors in bits and peels, even in stems that grow increasingly along the sides of trees that hang low to the reader, easily pickable. What I’ve seen, and continue to see, is that there’s something about oranges...
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.
On Working With Kids
Childhood is a surreal, terrifying, and beautiful concept. Children are real.
Lora Lee Broke Up With The Ocean
A short story about connections and romanticized ideas of people, about bodies, of water and otherwise, about understanding and what it consists of.
Analog
“Analog is a lyric essay that stems from two of my greatest sources of delight: my non-familial relationships and my mild obsession with recording things, often via photography. Broadly, it’s a meditation on how to cherish moments and people that bring me joy when everything is in constant flux.”
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.
Carousel
A story about how people come in and out of our lives in both significant and insignificant ways. We hear this story told from three perspectives: one of a bus driver, and both members of a young couple.
The Horse’s Name Was Friday
A creative exploration of understanding oneself through one’s physical body. Take a look into the nature of symbols using personal accounts, family history, and the work of Umberto Eco. It is, above all, a personal confession told through the eyes – or perhaps terrifying mouth – of girlhood.
MAROU
MAROU sits down with one of our editors to discuss mental health, moving to a new city, and how art isn’t just something we do, but who we are. She also talks about the music that has changed her life for the better, and how she’s glad she listened to the signs that kept telling her she was headed down the right path.
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.
Luck is a Funny Thing
Caitlin Taylor So retells the stories her grandpa told her about the Vietnam War, from her perspective as his granddaughter. Reflecting on what these stories mean to her, she connects them to her annual Lunar New Year wishes to her grandparents. She grapples with how it is possible to give back to your elders when they have given you everything.
Boy, Descending
N.H. Van Der Haar wrote this work because he was deeply interested in their Gay Sauna, how it occupies a space in pre-legality homosexual life and how delicate its position can feel in the wider culture of Pride and Melbourne culture.
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.
a collection
I’ve been compiling many of my poems from old notebooks to create a book of life. Like a memoir but in poems. These are a few of the recent ones.
The Adventures of Isabelle Book II: Journey To Orphalese
Join Princess Isabelle of Xamayca as she answers her first call to adventure on the high seas to free the people of Orphalese from the sinister Captain Flint and his fleet of greedy pirates.
Yoba
Growing up as a queer Salvadoran in Los Angeles, Cruz portrays his memories of childhood in El Salvador and his experiences coming to the US at the age of five.
Rainfall
A short fictional piece in which two people debate about whether a painting of the real world is of any merit or significance.
A Look at “Untitled Gamer Play”
Our Editors interview Jason Wang and Sally Chen, a writer artist team responsible for the production of “Untitled Gamer Play”
Minutes To Midnight
A college new years party becomes a search for the perfect moment. A stage play about self discovery, maturity, and personal growth.
Idling
A play about gay yearning and missed timing, two college girls sit in a car waiting for a friend to sell them drugs and learn secrets about each other that they’ve kept hidden for years.
Reincarnation
Reincarnation explores natural cycles through a queer lens. The piece deals with loss, and rebirth, especially the losses and rebirths that are associated with queer identity; ostracization, internal conflict, self acceptance, and transformation.
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