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Celestial Visitors
Celestial Visitors imagines a moment of cosmic arrival—an encounter between the earthly and the divine, the known and the unknowable. In...

Zahra Zoghi
Jun 202 min read


Apastron (Cain and Abel)
I found my brother’s body. No one else thought to look. To call him mangled would be an understatement: razors had lacerated the...

Gayeng Makinang
Jun 202 min read


MY CAT GIVES ME TAROT READINGS
when my cat licks my palm, i wonder what it’s like to have a tongue of stars. “can you see them?” i ask her. “the particles...

Sierra B. Jameson
Jun 201 min read


Skywards
It is a revelation: Even the banal becomes momentous when you look at it with proper attention. Just point your phone skywards and...

Larry Kilman
Apr 182 min read


Looking for the Magic
At her father’s funeral, Willa stood next to Aunt Clara, her back ramrod straight as she tried to think about anything but the casket in...

Susan Savage Lee
Apr 188 min read


A Litany
They said an angel lived in the belfry. It was a strange tale to those who hadn’t grown up with it. A rumor that drew either the most...

Marsden Lyonwahl
Apr 1810 min read


How to Proceed
Numb and in a quandary— Dazed, disengaged, stymied. Here is your birth chart, which I have calculated and drawn by hand. I deliver...

Richard Denner
Feb 141 min read


On the Seafloor
My mind, memories, and soul came into being—like waking up, only somehow, I was already awake. My dim cabin aboard the Samsa was more...

Josephine G Cambridge
Nov 16, 20244 min read


Return of the Callaghans
Jessica parked her Tesla in the drive. Planning to meet Mike at Luigi’s for drinks after a quick shower and change, she didn’t bother to...

Mark Connelly
Nov 16, 20244 min read


The Falling People
Some have begun to wear parachutes when they sleep, for fear they’ll join the falling people. Others carry benzodiazepine spray to shoot...

Ken Foxe
Sep 21, 202410 min read


It's crushing
It’s crushing but slippery, like a birth but better but worse; there are eyes on you, through you, but you can’t summon any numbers to...

Kaille Kirkham
Sep 21, 20242 min read


The Monitor
The Monitor came to me when I was 14 years old. I awoke in my bed. I couldn’t move. My eyelids felt stuck, like the barn doors after a...

Nicole Kurlich
Sep 20, 202410 min read


Violet Plays With Raindrops
Violet Plays With Raindrops, 2024 With a fingertip, I caught raindrops on the windowpane one by one, letting the coolness shock my skin...

A.J. Van Belle
Sep 20, 20248 min read


The Salt Towers
There’s a clearing in the center of the Salt Towers where the red ash settles. The pointed remains of stalagmites, exposed to the sky...

V.T. Mikolajczyk
Jul 19, 20248 min read


The Godhead
Some people suffer sleepless nights pondering if the Big Bang proves or disproves God. Others have wondered how God said, “Let there be...

Bernardo Villela
Jul 19, 20245 min read


Points of View
Everything ached. My back throbbed, and each pulse of my heart sent lightning bolts of pain that ricocheted through my contorted spine....

Riley Turner
Jul 19, 20247 min read


Gift of the Fey
Tira plucked the sethel flower off the stem and sucked the starlight from it. It hinted at sweetness, teasing like the moon on this...

Emmie Christie
May 18, 20245 min read


The Savior of Battery Island
From where you crouch, the city is a swarm of lights. You hear the horn of the final ferry and know it carries the day’s last tourists....

Jacob Strunk
May 18, 20244 min read


I Should’ve Been an Astronaut
Looking back, I should’ve been an astronaut: brave, weightless yet still attached to the ground, the balance that would answer all...

Wallace Truesdale II
May 17, 20241 min read


Theurgy and magnetic sphere
There is a guiding light. A path towards a healthier and more compassionate self. It is a star self, a light held together by its own...

Mitchell Pluto
May 17, 20241 min read
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