Issue 2
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By Monty Rozema Scorpio 𖤓 | Scorpio ⏾ | Leo ↑ This pieces has been selected by our editors to be nominated for the 2026 Pushcart Prize. My dad always thinks there’s dogs barking – There’s not. He’s just losing it. I should know, because I come over twice a week to help look after
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By Jacq Schroeder Gemini 𖤓 | Aries ⏾ | Cancer ↑ My cat scratch got infected on October 28th.By Halloween rotten pumpkin gut spills down my calf on the front step.Cinderella’s glass slipper sticks in putrid orange puss,An apologetic candy bar melts in her cavities. A week ago plastic skeletons broke from the branches of
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By Lauren Stark Leo 𖤓 | Gemini ⏾ | Aquarius ↑ Oko looked down at their ba’s hand, which lay limp on top of their own in the sunset room. This hand had survived flood and fire, famine and revolt. It had rested suspended in serum on the ship that brought him to Elos, when
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By Ella B. Winters Son Daughter for Wren You are changing,and I’m not really surewhat to do with the partsyou no longer havea use for. Thorax crushed,wings unformed,without a cocoonthe slimy mess of itdissolving everythingI knew, right in front of me. Still, the matteris the same. The DNAisn’t altered. Componentsrearranged, but the energynever dies, keeps
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By Tim Snyder 1 A few years ago I walked with a friend through a horse farm just as the leaves had begun their short ascent into fire colors. The odor of fall lifted from the fields of mown hay and grew with each fence post we passed. At the base of one post a
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By Dorian Mackle Bayley Cancer 𖤓 | Libra ⏾ | Virgo ↑ i call the oceanon a conchwho tells me i spitthe rising tidewho tells me, to knowhow a whale tastes,she onceswallowed the moon. i put on starsto introducemy fingers to the rock pool crabsand there she is — tossing night acrossher scapula,biting epidermis cliffs,teaching
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By Elsie Steane You sit next to me on the bench. It is so much easier to have these conversations when one doesn’t have to look at the other. I imagine that is why confession booths are like that. And why the worst conversations all happen in the car. Tonight we have our confession booth.
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By E. L. McKee Scorpio 𖤓 | Cancer ⏾ | Sagittarius ↑ I think I’m finished with waiting for the stars to align. I’d rather not be at the behest of their fickle twinkling. The Big Dipper doesn’t get to decide, the Ram and Bear be damned— I won’t be governed by The Celestial Body
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By Nadia Amina Rabbani Capricorn 𖤓 | Sagittarius ⏾ | Cancer ↑ I woke from a deep sleep. From such a deep sleep my brain fumbled to even remember what being awake was, what sleep was, and who I was. I didn’t remember falling asleep and though my vision felt crisp, I couldn’t really make
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By M. B. Duffy Capricorn 𖤓 | Capricorn ⏾ | Virgo ↑ Is this body an anchor or a penal colony? A moot memory, a book etched in bone, Untranslatable as your dead grandfather’s extinct mother tongue, Still lingering in the syntax of your sleep As a ghost, harsh words pass through me As flesh, our hologram lifespan
A Curious Moon 