Fiction & Poetry

“Naked, I wanted / to be useful to her in the color fields / of July and August.”

“We heard about the boy / Who drowned while swimming / With a dolphin.”

The author reads his story from the March 31, 2025, issue of the magazine.

The bar was mostly empty, but Aaliyah was playing, so I passed the bartender some yen, and after he mixed my drink he lingered in front of me.

“I held up the femur / of a grasshopper.”

“In this life, if you do not know what you are looking for, // how can you find it?”

With the girl beside him, he has all that he requires. So long as they are alone together, and she is in his custody, so to speak.

The author reads her story from the March 24, 2025, issue of the magazine.

“When devotion is self-betrayal, / the body knows.”

“I’ve had the time of my life, friends, / living quietly like a snail in a pocket.”