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Gemini Rising—Poems by Christie Ann Reynolds
THE LIT LINES OF YOUR PALM [IN THE ONLY DARK WE KNOW OF THE ROOM] by Michael Wasson
Dear FetLife Tourist: An Open Letter by AB
I Don’t Want to Look How They Want Me to Look: On Tininess and Sexuality by Ansley Clark
Exiting on Bell Road—Flash by Doni Shepard
how to put
it, like this—in my
middle there was
a beginning, almost,
your hands into
the place for safekeeping, tell
a small story: she
and her sisters—
Bulleted woman
With a messed up face
Saw her unmarred self
Bloom in sleep
Somewhere along the brow
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Definition: a form of outercourse practiced by devout Mormons in a failed attempt to keep the law of
chastity. See also Provo Push and Provo Soak.
Like most men, I learned to float to prevent
from drowning, from dipping too deep
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by AB
Imagine you’re a lesbian, at a lesbian bar on Lesbian Night. You strike up a conversation with a total babe. You buy her a drink. She’s leaning in, touching your arm, giving you the eye. You take her out onto the dance floor and start mackin’. As the night winds down, you ask for her number. She giggles self-consciously.
“Oh, um…so, I’m not really a lesbian. I just think women are beautiful, and like, I thought it would be fun to hook up a little, or something.”Continue Reading
If I trace the lines of your palm
with only the tip
January 20, 2017 Issue
On this Inauguration Day, we are raising our voices for justice, equality, diversity, unity and empathy.
Essays
Mariam Williams “Radical Self-love: Writing Intimate Spaces in the Trump Era”
Loie Merritt “in the orchard of unmentionable”
Alysia Sawchyn “Feeling the World Askew”
Courtney Udischas “Un-President-Ed: The Trauma of Trump”
Eric Mueller “On Dick: How Materialism Caught Up with My Queer Life”
Caitlin Scarano “Tell Me How to Be”
Rose Heredia “No Time for Apathy: Processing the 2016 Election”
Poetry
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal “BALLOT BALLET BULLOT BULLET”
Jessica Lawson “Oath of Softest”
Torrin Greathouse “Body/Language”
Fiction
Erin Armstrong “A Southern Mythology: Tales from Georgia”
Interview
with Jennifer Williams, creator of “The Better Feminism Workbook”
IMAGE: Shepard Fairey, www.theamplifierfoundation.org
by Alysia Sawchyn
I pulled into the row of parking spaces at 6:25pm on a Saturday night, already five minutes late to the monthly prayer meeting at Our Lady of Clearwater. Looking up at the glass-paned building, the stone grottos encasing plaster statues of Jesus and Mary on either side of its main entrance, like guardian lions, I took one deep breath in and let it go slowly.Continue Reading
By Mariam Williams
For two weeks after the election, I wrote nothing. I was enrolled in two writing workshops for my MFA, and I wrote nothing. I submitted a poem I had written over the summer and didn’t bother to revise for my poetry workshop that week. The following week, I skipped my nonfiction workshop all together. I also doubled my regular dosage of anti-depressants and avoided all the people I can’t stand on even my best days.
On November 9th, I opened up Instagram and my writers group pages on Facebook and found people touting Morrison, Baldwin, Hughes.Continue Reading
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