Genre: Featured

Jacob Schlote

"He says he ordered a kid’s meal to be just like you, but you aren’t old enough to understand. It still doesn’t completely sink in because you know there’s not a need to understand, only wanting to bask in the gloriousness of reliving the event."

Violet Piper

The second secret is that cereal wasn’t my choice, but it takes up so much space I know it will eventually push everything else out.

Jasper Glen

"Children? I am singular, / Unfamiliar, spawndark / mob of myself"

AM Larks

"I am usually the one in control, the one working, the one in charge of someone else’s life, their body, and appearance. But here at Singapore Electric, Cheng is taking charge of my body, my appearance, my life."

Cheryl Dumesnil

"Today’s caller takes the shape / of a child who emerged / from the fault line / after the earthquake"

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Ana Fortuna

"We spill words on the street/afraid dreaming of vessels/but when we say goodbye/the gesture, like a wave,/draws houses on the pavement"

David Capps

"I’ve known when to withdraw from a situation about to turn bad, and when to keep on, so I said, “LJ you can do anything in life,” which despite his “Godbless” struck me as lacking certain riders."

Sanne Bergh

"In these moments in time, I don’t matter. To be insignificant in the scope of it all is my empowerment."