Prose: “A Hollingsworth Hotel” by Gretchen Troxell

“There are two individuals I’d like to report missing, Mister….” Ez glances down at the sun-weathered sign-in book. There are dozens of spills decorating the nearly moldy signatures. “Hansen, Richard Hansen, and Ms. Elizabeth Clay… Seventy-two hours ago… the Hollingsworth Hotel…. Yeah, same thing…. Okay, thanks.” She hangs up the phone before turning to me […]

Prose: “Pirates of the Willamette” by Adam Matson

They say you can’t choose your neighbors, but if you’re homeless, you basically can choose your neighbors. You can choose your neighborhood. You can live in a tent down by the river, if you want to. And that’s what Finn did. Pitched her tent in a shady nook beside the Willamette River on the edge […]

Prose: “Bridget” by Sam Curreli

I freaking love Fridays. Not because the week is over; not because I can sleep in all I want for the next two days—no. Weekends are lonely. I never know who will be around here. This includes my roommate Rebecca, who, much like my older sister, sometimes likes to pretend I don’t exist. So, I […]

Prose: “The Carrot Poopgate Affair: The Secret History of Poopgate, Carrots, and President Amar Akbar Anthony, our First US President with Multiple Personalities” by Hafeez Diwan

Was there something about the carrot, as opposed to a radish, a cucumber, or zucchini? It could easily have been a tomato had it not been for the fact that, in a moment of panic, I picked up a carrot instead of a tomato. There were plenty of tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, celery (celery would have […]

Poetry: “Report from Salt Lake City” by Stephen Ruffus

Once there was an ocean here with the name of an ancient body. See the markings on the stone walls and imagine its fullness. Now only a lake remains that one day shall be a vast memory. My doctor reports that tests reveal I am dry as the moon’s craters. Living where things evaporate just […]

Statement Regarding “Renovation”

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Poetry: “Keep a Few LPs” by John Walser

Keep a few LPs on a shelf in a closet your favorite groups your favorite teenage afternoons with headphones singing so everyone in the house but you can hear. Save them so you can once in a while slip one for its jacket palm hold it by the edges like a child’s face blow the […]

Poetry: “Reckon Rigorously All!” by Saloni Kaul

As light as lonely swaying emptiness, buoying weightlessness all chantlike afloat, the one and only apt appendage, That floats in principle taut right above all the depressed states, revelling in movement for movement’s sake, One’s wildest thoughts and tight-locked bottled up emotions all slide across and dock like dulcet song in glorious homecoming Quite like […]

Poetry: “Blue-Sky Thinking” by Salvatore Difalco

The face in the cloud speaks to me. “I see you down there, grinding away. I prefer floating. I prefer drenching.” O Spring, the imagination runs wild! A fine line separates fancy and insanity, like I don’t know. Now it fucking rains. The face in the cloud, darker now, chides me for forgetting my umbrella. […]

Poetry: “Crackle” by Joshua Wetjen

I sprinkle a plastic cup of salt on the icy, ribboned, lacey, slippery sidewalk. Cold prickles my face. Ice crackles, like laughter and small talk at a gathering party. Then, the sun appears. Pink salt crystals, dissolve, invisible, except on the toe of my left boot—a white streak over the scuffed brown leather. I want […]