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1926 Washington, D.C. Shaw District “There’s a man on the front stoop.” The words spilled from her in a much more mundane way than Judy had expected, considering how her neck was fluttering with her excited pulse. Alvin looked up from the new Langston Hughes poetry collection he was reading under the lamp in […]
Content Note: Queerphobia, religious trauma, police brutality, violence towards animals, domestic violence, & the sexualization of feminine bodies I Our Most Detestable Shape Never forget you are their monster. That’s the first rule we tell you, crammed between us in the back of Paola’s dad’s vintage ’22 Dodge Challenger, his project car he lets […]
Monday: Fluffernutter Sandwich You smile and greet me by name when I arrive: “Hi, Mira, please come in.” It’s the same polite smile you give the doctors. You know who I am, but my identity is just a fact shoved into your brain, equally weighted alongside millions of others: The sky is blue. The […]
Miles checks very carefully that what he’s being asked to do is impossible. He has a template for the packaging, supplied by the licensor, with a note at the top stating this template cannot be altered in any way. Miles also has the style bible prepared by the Mr Zeb brand management team, which must […]
You were supposed to get one of the good kinds of time travel, not this. Yours was supposed to involve someone super-famous, someone whose name you did not have to explain using four to five wikis and approximate years because even you didn’t quite know when they were born. Failing the famous angle, your parents […]
Content note: violence, sexual abuse, suicide, cannibalism There is no limit to the number of curses in the world. For each one the monks try to exorcise, ten more take its place. We are not here because we enjoy it though. Please don’t misunderstand. As you dip into steaming bath waters, entwine your bodies […]
I’m getting ready for the block party: dark eyeliner, obligatory silver glitter (we’re on the moon, after all, we have our fashions), beard trimmed to perfection, hair carefully dishevelled. I do my best, yet the good mood won’t stay on, no matter what I try. Because the moon is cursed, isn’t it, and I feel […]
Grandma Irene taught Lucy how to sew pockets at the same time she taught her how to make a skirt. Skirts with pockets are much more complicated than skirts without, of course, but Grandma Irene was firm on her point—the one could not be made without the other. “You always have to have a place […]
Content note: racist slur Come Saturday afternoon, the premier conference on computer micro-architecture will go into session. Professors, graduate students, and industry professionals from around the world will stuff themselves into the outfits they wear only for conferences, job interviews, and funerals. We will then file into one paper session after another and at […]
On this island, women wait. It’s what they were made to do. Each morning, the sun warms the white-and-blue houses and, soft-boiled eggs, the doors crack. One by one the women trot out, sit on cattail stools outside their doors. Hair neatly tucked under headscarves, needlelace dancing between their fingers, banter and song flying around. […]
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