Blackout

Chathuni Gunatilake (writer), Manyu Wang (graphics)

Vedic Hymn 121

Jocelyn Saunders (writer), Grace Reeve (illustrator)

Cyberpunk fluoros, / And past it all… noise / noise and buzzing. / Who is the god we homage with our oblation?Read Article

The Reel Life Assessment

Andrea Salvador (writer), Manyu Wang (illustrator)

You fill in the blanks with your best friend’s complete name—written repeatedly over grade school friendship slam books.Read Article

The Plates I've Made: Three Vignettes on Dishes and Their Social Lives

Annabelle Dillon Nocka (writer), Ella Cao (illustrator)

We circuited between food and the erotic, making promises to roast pumpkins and burn butter for each other.Read Article

That Last Neon Night

Michelle Yu (writer), Evan Goulios (illustrator)

The pink, spherical Neon Galactic was in a dim rest stage at the moment, and hung, low and shallow, in the sky.Read Article

lethe

Jia Yi Kylia Koh (writer), Ella Cao (illustrator)

she liked to make me dance / led me soapy / to the balcony / i grew up thankful, violet-hairedRead Article

wishing on a plucked eyelash

Jia Yi Kylia Koh (writer), Ella Cao (illustrator)

can you still remember / when we all stepped / in, and left our / shoes be- / hind / ?Read Article

the little prince

Jia Yi Kylia Koh (writer), Ella Cao (illustrator)

i imagine the patter will sound like a baptism. / or at least, it will sound.Read Article

Hocus-Pocus Recipes and Rituals: Jamming and Vibing Ourselves out of a Sticky Situation

Marcie Di Bartolomeo (writer), Jessica Norton (illustrator)

Witch jail sure gets boring. Fortunately I will be released soon—but not before they take my ability to do magic!Read Article

The Mistreatment of Amber Heard

Georgia King (writer), Leilani Leon (illustrator)

You heard she deserved it. You p u l l e d her a p a r t taking her words and / spitting!! / on her!Read Article

A Grave for Smoke and Mirrors

Alexia Shaw (writer), Monica Yu (illustrator)

So I write this elegy not / for them; / but for the spaces left in the dust on my mantelpieceRead Article

Give Up, the Ghost

Hannah Hartnett (writer), Edie Spiers (illustrator)

“A move from the first house to the twelfth.” He paused to read. “If you acquiesce, you’ll have strange times.”Read Article

The Exhibit Must Be Cleaned On Sunday

Narii Salmon (writer), Amber Jepsen (illustrator)

my pearled gaze / will watch that haze mark the soul / will watch it puncture thirty hollow menRead Article

triptych for elvis / i want to swallow my own piss

Eva Rees-Wemyss (writer), Arielle Vlahiotis (illustrator)

on stage in honolulu / the music driving upwards out of his crotch / his arms knives cutting through the air.Read Article

Bird Hunting

Tess Corbel (writer), Manyu Wang (illustrator)

“Now available,” the ad said. “Bird collector cards in every ZipFresh Ready Meal. Collect them all!”Read Article

angel sonnet

Joanne Zou (writer), Vincent Escobal (illustrator)

rollercoaster rides through sparkling / synths sounding there’s a big black sky / over my townRead Article

Flash Fiction Edition Six: Nostalgia

Various (writers), Nina Hughes (illustrator)

blockbuster became liquorland / asphalt corner grew up / it doesn’t know i still have a child insideRead Article

A W.I.P. Around the Workshop: Exposition Exposed

Roman Ulyanov, Creative Literature and Writing Society (writer); Casey Boswell (illustrator)

The call’s coming from someone called ‘Plot-Critical Caller’, so unfortunately you have to answer.Read Article

The Creature in the Thicket

Suzi Markel (writer), Monica Yu (illustrator)

She blinks away frantic winged water boatmen. Their dead, waterlogged bodies litter the surface like jewels.Read Article

micro city

Peta Popa-Jeske (writer), Yicheng Xu (graphics)

People with multicoloured veins and swollen bellies sleep on the streets, recover from back-alley surgeries in gutters.Read Article

The Woman in the Well

Elizabeth Browne (writer), Jessica Norton (illustrator)

Time stops passing like it does in the outside world and instead sort of hangs in the air, stale and inert.Read Article