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Interview with Author Debbie Urbanski

In “My Suicides” by Debbie Urbanski, the narrator meets a manifestation of each suicide that enters her life at different times. They appear as comforting figures, promising that they have...

Interview with Author Debbie Urbanski

In “My Suicides” by Debbie Urbanski, the narrator meets a manifestation of each suicide that enters her life at different times. They appear as comforting figures, promising that they have...

My Suicides

Content Warnings: suicide, suicidal ideation, self-harm I don’t know if, in the beginning, it was that they promised me anything, or if I imagined they promised me something. At the...

My Suicides

Content Warnings: suicide, suicidal ideation, self-harm I don’t know if, in the beginning, it was that they promised me anything, or if I imagined they promised me something. At the...

Weird Girl Fiction

“What good do your words do if they can't understand you?” – Erykah Badu  Something I love about getting older is the freedom of distance. You can look back with...

Weird Girl Fiction

“What good do your words do if they can't understand you?” – Erykah Badu  Something I love about getting older is the freedom of distance. You can look back with...

Ada the Last Daughter: On Blackhole Cosmology and Computation

“That’s the thing, baby, life’s full of conundrums,” is the way Ada decided to say she was leaving forever right after she told me she loved me. She broke my...

Ada the Last Daughter: On Blackhole Cosmology and Computation

“That’s the thing, baby, life’s full of conundrums,” is the way Ada decided to say she was leaving forever right after she told me she loved me. She broke my...

In Your Diminishing Tongue

Throughout millennia, I have consumed many words. I devoured the mammoths’ savory nouns, grazed upon the smoky verbs of mycelium. One word I remember with particular clarity is chi-chiq’i, which...

In Your Diminishing Tongue

Throughout millennia, I have consumed many words. I devoured the mammoths’ savory nouns, grazed upon the smoky verbs of mycelium. One word I remember with particular clarity is chi-chiq’i, which...

Glass

I slipped the piece of reflective glass into my upper arm, right under the skin.  It came from your grandmother’s antique dresser. I’d joked about burning the dark mahogany monstrosity....

Glass

I slipped the piece of reflective glass into my upper arm, right under the skin.  It came from your grandmother’s antique dresser. I’d joked about burning the dark mahogany monstrosity....

Interview with Author Claire Jia-Wen

“The Bathhouse for Long Life” by Claire Jia-Wen is focused around the titular bathhouse, the last relic of the Kingdom of Women, a place where visitors may submerge in one...

Interview with Author Claire Jia-Wen

“The Bathhouse for Long Life” by Claire Jia-Wen is focused around the titular bathhouse, the last relic of the Kingdom of Women, a place where visitors may submerge in one...