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An excerpt from Sondra R. Brooks’ unpublished memoir, this personal essay paints a childhood haunted by the damaging spectre of hypermasculine, alpha father figures
Prayer
“Everything I like is like that man who first thought to take that picture of that starving black child waited for by that black vulture in that Sudan” – new prose poem by Tawanda Mulalu.
A True War Story
Vamika Sinha retells the water buffalo scene from Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story”, from the perspective of another soldier.