Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers, Black Fathers, and White Women
EIC Zoe Patterson weaves together an analysis of Kendrick Lamar's new album with grief over her relationship with an absent parent
Flee
In this rich personal essay, Augusté Nomekaité feels the weight of history on her Lithuanian identity, family, dating life, and her grappling with the horrors of the present: the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Even in Saltwater
Andrea Eaker’s short story traces a relationship realizing it has no roots
Two Postcards
Two poems by Teresa Cherukara offer tiny, epistolary stories of love and travel in the UAE
"Best Friends"
How do we represent care when it doesn’t fit into the bounds of a conventional relationship? Discover the intimacy of undefinable care through this photo series by Nina Parker
When We Go
A walking poem, by Bhrigu Bhatra.
he is a town
Imagining a relationship as a city, a possible home. New in poetry, by Zoe Jane Patterson.
In the Corners
A wandering poem about traveling through different cities looking for love.
Ethan, Or the First Time I Laid Eyes on You
“You’re the laid back type unlike the boys / I’m used to, who prance about in search of toxic masculinity” – Shane Allison’s new poem enacts a queer romance in a bar.
Beautiful Adonis of a Lake Bradford Sandwich Shop
“I watch your lips move as you / Ask if I want mayonnaise, mustard” – Shane Allison cloaks queer lust in rich food imagery.
two mouths
Swiveling between two loves, Vamika Sinha presents a choice as a poem.
cambridge, ma
A melancholic love poem set at Harvard.
Frida
Zoe Jane Patterson wanders through the streets, playing out her life in a Frida Kahlo lens.
principles of past, present, future
Giana Moreno melds the cold, bluntness of numbers with the failure of a relationship.
What Do You Want?
Layan Ismail plays out a painful breakup in Egypt in this new short story.
Edit
Vamika Sinha explores the creative process of editing, itself an art, in this new poem.
Strayed: A Sonnet
Wild women, wolves and love collide in Zoe Patterson's new sonnet.
Tender
Zoe Jane Patterson revisits her childhood in Al Ain, painting it with the brushstrokes of hindsight and poetic nostalgia.
On the Beach at Night Alone
A whimsical, dreaming young woman “knocks on the heart of another tree” in this poem by Ruobing Sabrina Zhao.
Onions
A woman’s life is taken over by a camera. New in fiction, a Foucauldian romance.