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Excerpted from The City Above and Below: Song of the Weaver - Book One (2018, Lamplight) 12.11.2387 – Planet Vellus, just outside Alba … read more about The City Above and Below
by Matthew E. Nesheim

I met Toad during a rough time. I mean, I wasn’t sick or addicted or anything. Nobody I knew had just died, and I wasn’t living on the streets. It was … read more about A Painter’s Secret
by Matt Whelihan

[Editors' Note: An embryonic version of this piece, titled "Me, the Other," was originally published in Spanish in a small circulation magazine. The … read more about Recognition
by Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio

* With the bedrock it needs though this city was built on rainwater :shards pieced together the way pots imbedded in … read more about Five Poems
by Simon Perchik

Reading an article with a chunk missing, chewed by the dog, is a little like going to the bathroom during a movie, then … read more about Reading an Article with a Chunk Missing, Chewed by the Dog
by Charlene Fix

There is so much reality it often escapes me. Even at dinner, while chewing root vegetables, the excess bursts from my … read more about What the Mind Hungers for
by Michael T. Young

The scrap yard at the north end of my long city street hummed like a dystopic anthill, the day I drove up in my 15-year-old … read more about Bike to the Future
by Krista Foss

Academics who study science fiction have typically been fixated on what they see as its privileged relationship with … read more about Some Notes on the Nonexistence of Wakanda
by Gerry Canavan

The only things that remain of his past as a drug dealer are the physical indicators: pocked track marks in the creases of … read more about The Miracle of Ordinary
by Janette Schafer

THOUSAND STAR HOTEL by Bao Phi Coffee House Press (2017) 110 pages reviewed by Brian Satrom What authors empathize … read more about Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi
(reviewed by Brian Satrom)

POEMS IN WATER by Mary Langer Thompson Green Fuse Poetic Arts (2014) 57 pages reviewed by Carol Smallwood Every poetry … read more about Poems in Water by Mary Langer Thompson
(reviewed by Carol Smallwood)

VELVET RODEO by Kelly McQuain Bloom Books (March 2014) 42 pages reviewed by Marc Frazier This collection takes us on a … read more about Velvet Rodeo by Kelly McQuain
(reviewed by Marc Frazier)

Rose Eveleth is a producer, designer, writer, and animator. Currently, Rose is the producer and host of Flash Forward, a … read more about Interview with Flash Forward host and producer Rose Eveleth
by Sarah Augusta

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, … read more about Hanif Abdurraqib interviewed by Ruth Awad: Joy Is Not Promised to You

An estimated six-and-a-half million Mexican-born citizens live and work in the United States without legal authorization. … read more about Juan Gelacio interviewed by Robert Joe Stout: Invisible on Paper

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