The train is departing. Please, stand clear.
There blows an ill wind where reality & contradictions converge, the wind
that warns us not to dwell in the past, but to pay attention...
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Oct 131 min read
Let Us Not Postpone
Let us not postpone the intent of our dreams.
We’ve been chasing It so long
Sep 219 min read
Vampire Girl: Chapters 23-27
Okay. I accept that. I give up on trying to stay on the outside. So I’m here today to claim the title Vampire-American. I wear it proudly.
Aug 2334 min read
The Plum
His eyes returned to the serpent. All of his plans, he ruminated, the remaining years with Bev, the Florida home now under contract...
Jul 1433 min read
The Quasi-Reality of Positive Emotion Normativity: Creating an Archive of Joy and Combating the Withering Principle
[Rather] than leaving these spaces feeling that the traumatic event has been adequately addressed, [a trauma metaphysic remains].
May 55 min read
The Poem of the Mind
For many, words are sacrosanct only insofar as they are bluntly instrumental. They must be instantly efficacious, dense as a rock...
Apr 2918 min read
Maria Spiridonova Remembered Writing Contest Runners-Up
Elaina Erola won the Maria Spiridonova Remembered Writing Contest with her essay "What Their Spirits Know," but check out the runners-up!
Apr 21 min read
Poems By Abbie Hart
and she sends me videos of a possum eating
as if i am not right here.
her very own possum
Mar 102 min read
Feral Heart
from my tooth and claw warren
where only truth rotates,
dripping as a libertine
fueled by Romanticism
from my extending canines
Feb 2810 min read
The Exploitation of Misery: Reflections on Suffering as Capital
The elite decide who and how many will be remembered, and who and how many will be forgotten.
Feb 2719 min read
What Their Spirits Know
The place for Native American women is treacherous. We no longer live on the battlefield fighting our enemies, but...
Feb 71 min read
Ruellia Brittoniana: Desire
When I allow my sandaled left foot to feel
the dirt as I replant the Mexican
petunias, hoping against hope and yet...
Feb 211 min read
Vampire Girl: Chapters 19-22
There was a blur of evening gowns and contestants being invited to talk insipidly about their roots and how long they’d been undead...
Jan 292 min read
Wrestling Poems By Christopher Dizon
A suit case full of money. A superstar
contract. A main event. A five-pound shine
associated with heavyweight gold.
Jan 448 min read
Existential Etiquette: Providing Actual Nourishment To One’s Self & To Others
Upholding principles then becomes integral to BDSM as it is part of social reality. This immediately indicts sadism as being open-ended...
Dec 22, 202316 min read
Milk & Cookies
He sprints to the checkout, breathless. 'About the thing,' he gasps. The girl hands over the Spy Kit Elite. His son's Christmas wish.
Dec 4, 20231 min read
Andromeda
on stony floors, of terracotta hue, as the tallow bleeds in spines of white light, the crook-necked
pores of our pressed skin shiver...
Nov 23, 20231 min read
Wax Figure
SUDDENLY i am a childless ewe with a running breast–
my body knows something i cannot...
Nov 4, 202322 min read
Beyond Alters: Prioritizing an Archive of Feelings over an Archive of Trauma in DID Treatment
Given the intricate interplay between alexithymia and dissociation, PAQ-S emerges as a potentially powerful tool [for working with DID].
Oct 2, 202312 min read
Vampire Girl: Chapters 15-18
[N]either woman wanted to be Little Red Riding Hood, and both wanted to be the wolf, and the happy ending was Riding Hood getting devoured.
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