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Self Consideration

Self Consideration

A man contemplates acceptance of the changing of the seasons and of life.
The Big Blue

The Big Blue

Innocence and experience reach a precarious tipping point when a day of skipping school ends with two girls hitchhiking to New Mexico.
Constrictive

Constrictive

The pursuit of hollow ideals slowly strangles one man in this ominous and brooding piece.
How to Stay in the Room (Part 1)

How to Stay in the Room (Part 1)

A full-time writer shares her secrets to staying organized, from writing software to spreadsheets.
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Softly

Softly

girls are like triangles / pointed, mean and angry
Subject

Subject

A film crew hired to document a wealthy child's life gets shaken up when the boy joins their crew on his sixteenth birthday.
Writer's Block Buster: Think Inside a Box

Writer’s Block Buster: Think Inside a Box

Because ideas only seem to strike in the shower, our columnist attempts to break free of writer's block by confining herself to a similar small space.
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i wanna get pepper sprayed

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i wanna get pepper sprayed

my girlfriend thinks i'm projecting.
Synesthesia

Synesthesia

It's been almost a year now since she started taking in the scent of printed numbers.
Tanagra

Tanagra

A translation of the Rainer Maria Rilke poem by a four time Jeopardy! champion.
the 11/11/11 11:12 project

the 11/11/11 11:12 project

i think there are more people like me out there. i'm pretty sure about it, actually. i'm at least willing to find out.
Californian

Californian

Relentless sunny California days lull the speaker of this poem into a dreamlike inertia.
Border Kali

Border Kali

This time, as we huffed in oppositional rhythms, her form dilated into another, crueler figure, now laboring to metamorphose. Something bigger than a border collie with a tongue hanging out, something beyond this moment, ancient and unfinished.
"Bad Weather" and "Blue Impossibility"

“Bad Weather” and “Blue Impossibility”

You are searching for the map in your head thinking: "Where am I?" Listening to the repulsive sound of the winter sucking at the bones of the trees.
Crossover

Crossover

My sin–reading a comic book when she was going on and on about God or at least Samson–and said to me, "Now you know better than to bring that to class," meaning the Man of Steel, or at least his latest adventure.
third goatee, or: why there is a goatee instead of nothing

third goatee, or: why there is a goatee instead of nothing

i wonder what a redwood looks like.