Let's fight the fash.

 

with Rachel Zavecz, Belle Brock Adelman-Cannon, and Ching-In Chen

with Sheila E. Murphy

with Kayla Rodney

with Joani Reese

with Joel Chace

by Bill Wolak
Open As Light, Where Risk Begins

with Laura Mattingly, Carolyn Hembree, Skye Jackson, and Jonathan Penton

by Penny Frances

Opening the pain of the ones I’ve lost to merge with the countless unknowns, the privilege of life in this infinite vastness, and still what of Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine and nobody talking of climate change in the carbon choked skies.


by Caeli Higgins

Prison officials added new charges against Quierza, claiming the GoFundMe somehow constituted “bribery and solicitation.” It was illogical, baseless, and devastating. He hadn’t asked me to do it. The money wasn’t even going to him; it was going to his family, for legal representation. 


by Jessie Arrietty

Not devourer, but consequences last
needing machinery to connect
Things, flung into pulp cavity of a tusk
sensitive stuff in the hollow.


by Garth Martens

I touched his hat and it did stick, to test us both.    His
cigar-brown robes
weirder dusts he incubates empowder me.      Brittle, like chalk.     
In turns I hang or decorate      anti-inflammisorries 


by Frankie Metro

Biggest pitfall is balance. Prevailing mental health philosophy is ‘oxygen mask goes on the self first’, right? But disability doesn’t care if the care giver is sick or tired or hurting or depleted, needs are still needs.


by Zachery Brasier

Hovering above the horizon was a huge patch of white. It sprouted gradually extending gaseous arms that swirled and combined like ink drops in water. Little sparks illuminated the center of the pattern, blinking in and out of existence.


by Shubhaa Forrest

Since the day they met at an anti-globalization protest, they had always wanted to have kids, mainly to show the world that upbringing was the answer to the nature versus nurture dilemma...


by Howie Good

In his lost volume on Latin grammar, De analogia, Julius Caesar advised, “Avoid strange and unfamiliar words as a sailor avoids rocks at sea.”


by Bart Edelman

When you smell a hint of desire,
Tread closer, old boy,
Despite the unfamiliar air,
Challenging your every step.


by Frankie Metro

It means ‘cool heart’. It’s essentially this concept that making a scene in public is taboo and if you try any of that shit here mang, you have to worry about not just the person you’re fighting but onlookers as well...


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