Butt Waxing: A Cheeky Ass Experience
"Yes – it was my ass. An ass that needed grooming. " In this comedic essay – nearly a standup skit – Gaurav Dewani recounts his first butt-waxing experience
Spectacular Faults
TW: physical and sexual abuse
An excerpt from Sondra R. Brooks’ unpublished memoir, this personal essay paints a childhood haunted by the damaging spectre of hypermasculine, alpha father figures
Ladies and Gentleman, Your In-Flight Entertainment for this Evening: Late Capitalistic Nausea
Benjamin Kirby’s humorous essay takes us through the absurdity of a six-and-a-half hour Emirates flight
The Great Chalkboard War
A short, spiky story detailing a catastrophic event at a school
Chest Pain
"The diagnosis was Enlarged Heart Syndrome. I failed to understand why they intoned the news like they were reporting a death—I agreed with the diagnosis ..." – new in fiction by Vongai Mlambo.
Red Dirt
“A diner surrounded by dirt is the perfect place for peculiar things” – new fiction set in Arizona, by Scout Satterfield.
Planting M&Ms
A new prose poem on life as an immigrant in the Gulf, by Aathma Nirmala Dious.