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if, if, if — if i could meet you, small brown boy, i’d take your shoulders and shake them, ask you who taught you that the way i speak is […]
if, if, if — if i could meet you, small brown boy, i’d take your shoulders and shake them, ask you who taught you that the way i speak is […]
mothership when your mother tells you she has a mental health […]
Other People’s Dishes My Wife and I had sex on the commuter rail months before our first date. Both Bill Murray and my dog have stories where they wash other […]
Wetback of eternity I am undocumented worker of eternity, illegal crossing the border of a dream. My passport of existence expired. Without proper documentation […]
Over Breakfast, My Mother Comes Out to Me As a Shapeshifter It is my first week home from college and my mother has taken me out to our favorite breakfast […]
At Home Soil Tests and Self Loathing My neighbor Maria waters her potted plants at five in the morning she grows flowers so big their egos look up at the […]
DIFFERENT MASSACRES my college history class assigns a primary source with the word “transvestite” in the title. after a semester of genocides, this seems easy. my classmates assume that massacres […]
cinco de mayo For Cinco De Mayo my friend Hayley wears my grandmother’s skin. Cackles like a hyena when she asks if I like her costume, And I mean like […]
maps for teeth winter 2016 – #4 letter from the editors j epervary (cover art) jazelle jajeh alfredo aguilar cat velez sophia holtz ron riekki emma rebholz noura jaber angelica […]