Issue #2: Allston, Michael F. Gill
–A Resident of Allston, Massachusetts In between groans and guffaws that mimic a dial tone and Yoko Ono strangling each other, Big Red is telling one of the hemp-scented girls […]
–A Resident of Allston, Massachusetts In between groans and guffaws that mimic a dial tone and Yoko Ono strangling each other, Big Red is telling one of the hemp-scented girls […]
I hope my grandmother dies before I get married. I have said this many times, how it stings like a bug zapper in my chest. A flicker of guilt before […]
The Season of the Clean Kill for my hometown – Trees bow their heads under the weight of snow like church elders steeped in prayer, their heavy limbs aching with […]
– For Ethyl, Lot 12 who rarely left her trailer, unless it was to yell at us neighborhood kids again—this time, the errant kickball splatted wetly against her bedroom window, […]
7/19/96, 5:36am The waterline rises, & a siren jolts the neighborhood awake with its howling. The sun is still crying, hasn’t stopped in days, you wonder if something broke its […]
division april 20, 1995 beyza lale ozer meaning: pure & white my mom looks down at me “gökten melek” meaning: angel from heaven my mother never had a second thought […]
7901 my house was built on a hellmouth. there is a family of army ants that say they aren’t doing any damage but they say this while they crawl between […]
My mother calls the seasons into our home! my room is flushed in spring. my mother opened my window, drew our garden up the wall and into my bed, my […]
— Juliet Degree
April 5th Perfect exposure clear light on my skin but I worry about her and what lies within. Dogs tied to doorways induce fear by supernatural signs tied to my […]