by Euan | Mar 18, 2023 | issue-21
Joseph Hardy Receiving Wisdom I predict, when you’re in second grade,a wise third-grader will share that it’s true: “If you step on a crack,you’ll break your mother’s back.” She’ll tell you lurid stories about real people,two different families known by her cousinin...
by Euan | Mar 10, 2023 | issue-21
Lucy Peters Don’t go, Jason Waterfalls Since the break-up I hadn’t started spending any more time with my friends, or my parents, or going on dates; instead I got up early on Saturday mornings and went across town to the British Library to drink rocket-fuel coffee and...
by Euan | Mar 4, 2023 | issue-21
Adam Welch It is what it is, it wants what it wants It’s just a muscle, isn’t it though, says Caz. It serves a very prosaic function, he says. He is leaning in towards the girl. His chair is tipped forwards. His body is balanced on his sharp, scabbed elbows, which are...
by Euan | Feb 25, 2023 | issue-21
Timothy Dodd For the Birds “You’re so pious, Theo,” Saspia said to me on more than one occasion when we were working together at the bakery. “I hope you’ll put a good word in with God for me so I can get into heaven.” Uncle Amos always says she’s only teasing me. It’s...
by Euan | Feb 18, 2023 | issue-21
Katherine Collins Lavinia onstage draped in red the thread of her body / curves so the threads don’ttouch except where they emerge / merging at theangles of her mouth / plumes of raffia / onered one black / designed to be held like trickling / sothere seem to be no...
by Euan | Feb 11, 2023 | issue-21
David Gerow Story for Circular Breathers 130 years after the construction of St Cecilia’s Anglican Church & 2 decades since it was repurposed as The Jam Jar (London’s #1 EuroFunk venue), this cavernous hall welcomes a new audience, one that neither worships nor...
