Elefante
A short story about an obese man. New in fiction, by Salvatore Difalco.
Wild: A Collage Series
A romp through the playground that encompasses sexuality and the viewer's gaze, a collage series by Shane Allison.
Red is the Blood of the People
This play was written and performed for Abu Dhabi's Short and Sweet festival, and won four awards including "Best Overall" and "People's Choice".
HOME
“this will not be your diaspora poem: / we have enough milk & honey” – new in milk & vodka, Vamika Sinha writes on brown bodies and belonging.
The Dangerous Bodies of Others: Twilight’s New Moon
In this essay, Zoe Jane Patterson explores the problematic racialization of the werewolf characters in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series.
Pearl Eyed People
New in milk & vodka, S K Garcia uses natural imagery to articulate female pain and emotional suppression.
"Sayang"
“you peel shrimps carefully / as if they will tell you the secrets to being pinoy” – in this rich, imagistic poem, Jamie Uy traces her Filipino culture and history through childhood tastes and foods.
Queer Body and Soul
Amanda Malamut weaves together their Catholic past with their queerness in this new poem. Accompanying artwork by Marcus Fessler.
The Witching Hour: Watching “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”
In this essay, Ria Golovakova talks about childhood magic and the new Netflix show about Sabrina the witch.
The Water in the Sun
A surreal, subtly erotic poem by S K Garcia.
Editors’ Note: The Mission and Future of Postscript
EICs Vamika Sinha and Zoe Patterson reflect on the evolution of this magazine, and their future plans for the publication.
i want to wear a qípáo too
“culture-repairers don’t want to read just dead white men or / wear them—so make this qípáo’s slit awful high!” – in a work of jazz poetry, Samantha Neugebauer thinks through the dilemmas of globalization and cultural appropriation.
Hazed
“After we finished crying there was still a lot to do” – Hazed is a short collection of poetry on the total penetration of the palm oil industry in our daily life, as well as its oft unseen effects on animals, plants, and indigenous communities.
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.
what kind of city is florence?
“how to reconcile this heaven of art with the hell you read of in dante’s inferno / of corrupt florentines and popes who abused their office / how to see past the peeling paint / to demolished jewish quarters and feuding noblemen and the scorched poor and their burned-down houses” – new in invisible cities, Jamie Uy writes about her time in Italy.
Nantes is on Fire
Jordan McDonald offers a forgotten history of the African slave trade in the French city of Nantes, and its legacy today.
unMute
“Moon-muscles” and “burning sun towers” collide in this poem by S K Garcia.
Geography IV
New in invisible cities, Neha John writes a series of observational poems about her hometown Dubai, inspired by The Little Prince and Elizabeth Bishop.
Spell Criminal With a 'K'
New in milk & vodka, Ava J Serra intersperses a Lady Gaga speech, rage at Brett Kavanaugh and protest against misogyny and rape culture in this feminist poem.
The voice saying in French
Ruobing Sabrina Zhao wades through French philosophy, weaving her native Mandarin into this poem.