by Nathan Dennis | Jul 9, 2021
Phil Keller The man behind me in the checkout line is maskless, angry, stands two feet away, and glares, as if defying me to say the light and space he occupies are mine. My sorrow builds until its density absorbs the light between us and my mind grows dark. I...
by Nathan Dennis | Jul 9, 2021
Samantha Gennett One time on acid you puked for three hours straight as you walked around the southern suburbs of Chicago with your then-boyfriend, now-mimeograph. Your vomit smelled like week-old chardonnay, vinegary, faux-fancy cocktail of butternut squash...
by Nathan Dennis | Jul 9, 2021
Dan Campion Survival of the fittest concepts does not make them true. They only rule until their betters come to mind, and then: It was a fine affair. Now, who’ll pick up the bill? To get out of the payment takes some skill, impossible to teach. You must be...
by Nathan Dennis | Jul 9, 2021
Ting Lin now it is summer and I still can’t eat much / on meds that make me shake for days / but i’m sprawled on your couch talking about tiny heartbreaks / willing some boy into obliteration / with the violence we used to claw at each other with / mouths...
by Nathan Dennis | Jul 9, 2021
Yash Seyedbagheri sedition, a casual slipper left for someone to slide on cleanup not included, why they say it’s just a demonstration, a statement, an ethos history shattered a flag bearing bars that split souls in half but it’s all casual a rowdy time, like...
by Nathan Dennis | Jul 9, 2021
Ceinwen Haydon Her claustrophobic room mulches secrets hidden beneath piles of frowsty knitwear. In zipped-up shoulder bags, under squashed hats: sexed memories lie smouldering there. Hidden beneath piles of frowsty knitwear torn letters, watermarked by wine...
