Current Issue

May 1, 2025

RESISTANCE

[Orange and yellow flames are emerging from a disembodied mouth. The following words are written in the flames: White supremacists are not very fine people; Denying trans rights does not “protect women”; Trying to violently overturn an election is not patriotic; Words matter; Truth matters; The opposite of diversity equity and inclusion is white supremacy and exclusion; Hatred and lies don’t make a country great; They hate “woke” because they want you asleep; Wake up!]

Original artwork by Melissa Fitzpatrick

SPEAK TRUTH, SPEAK FIRE

Editor’s Note

Fiction

SAMA BELL | BETTER CHANCE

CHRIS COTTOM | TWELVE YEARS A WAGE SLAVE

LY FAULK | PIG FLU

MARK KEANE | A GREAT LITTLE TOWN

FRANÇOIS BEREAUD | SIDEWALLS

ALICE KINERK | THE END

Poetry

ANDI STOUT | ERASED

JENNIFER SPURGEON | FAITH IS DEAD

PAUL HOSTOVSKY | TO A TODDLER BAWLING IN A PRAM

DOUGLAS LANG | HOPE LEAVES

ZARY FEKETE | THE PERSIAN EDIT

ALLISON P. BROWN | REMEDY FOR FASCISM

CANDACE KRONEN | TO THE WOMAN READING THE PROTEST FLYER AT THE GROCERY STORE

JAMES LILLIEFORS | THERE WILL BE WARNINGS

GRANT SHIMMIN | BESTER

PAUL GARDNER | SWASTIKA

CHANDRA PERSAUD | EN ROUTE

MONICA POSTMA | WAS THIS POEM AI GENERATED?

Creative Nonfiction

SUMITRA SIGNAM | MY BROTHER LECTURES ME ABOUT GAUGUIN

LANEY LENOX | TO MY DAUGHTER, THE ONE WITH THE SMALL HANDS

SARAH SELIM | MUD

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