After Jennifer S. Cheng 1: the sea captured in a glass 2: a homophone for having enough for leftovers, a synonym for abundance 3: the fish, who have already forgotten you. It’s not personal 4: where memory fails, there’s still imagining 5: you. Not as an ocean but outside 6: glass and/or acrylic
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The Arrest, in all its surreal narrative trappings, supercars, and Hollywood theatrics, wants to know if words can save us in a dystopia.
CHARLES YU is the author of three books, including the novel How to
Winner of the EXTINCTION Essay Contest, selected by Lacy M. Johnson
I am not mad, my heart is so. Cliffside, oceanside, Pacific sand dollars, dead and broken. I am everywhere in neither form nor feeling, washed-up giant kelp,sea glass. The fire, the flame, smoke,
Translated from the Italian by Amy Newman Though a ray of sunshine,it’s not thawing. The pale tangle of shadowsis stillthe only ornament of the earthbeneath the bare trees. In Norway — right
2023 Margaret Sterling Memorial Award Winner I am of my mother, my mother is of me. I am my mother’s eyes, deep turquoise, surrounded by deep orange, that I am not of.
2023 Hattie Lockett Award Winner after Otto Dix’s painting “Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber” I have met a Munich girl with black hairand a penchant for putting out matches on the
2023 Hattie Lockett Award Winner Memory finds me clean. I offer it space inside of my kidneys.It wants to know a face. I don’t have a face I only havehands. Bear the
2023 Hattie Lockett Award Winner That which I call myself by any other namewould not remember my cheeks blistering,tripping to the front of the classroom whenMrs. Blonde and Blue tripped over my
I sit on the rough cement steps of a country convenience store, keeping an eye on Mom. She’s been on the phone for at least an hour. She has a pile of
Jaimeson Oakley (He/They) is a trans/queer writer from the hills of Lucasville, Ohio. He is currently a poetry student of the Northeastern Ohio MFA creative writing program at Kent State University. They
Winner of the Sonora Review Issue 80 Fiction Contest, selected by Lydia Millet Holly’s pee sounded like voices. She used to think it was just the noise it made hitting the toilet,
Winner of the Sonora Review Issue 80 Nonfiction Contest, selected by Melissa Faliveno “My first reaction to most things is, ‘Fuck this, fuck you, this is bullshit,’” I said. My therapist blinked.