Daddy speaks with pride that I am the first lawyer in the family and with relief that I am not the drug-addicted lost soul of his fears. Continue reading
Author Archives: NM
Poetry by Stephanie Anderson
You found me with a whale stoned & poisoned
in my stomach & stars had crusted my eyes for days.
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Nonfiction by Ola Faleti
1. The problem is all inside your head, others will say this.
2.But the problem lingers in your wrinkled bedsheets.
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Fiction by Alexandra Watson
Criminal “Love is never better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.” —Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye The winter I move back to my hometown—, degree-bearing, jobless, staying at mom’s—I’m remembering why … Continue reading
May/June Fiction Editor Spotlight: Ryka Aoki
For Issue 8 Each editor was asked to pick a theme. Ryka Aoki will be reading fiction on the theme of Abundance. Read on to learn more. Ryka Aoki, our fiction editor for issue 8, is the author of Seasonal Velocities, He Mele a Hilo (A Hilo Song) and Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul. She has been … Continue reading
May/June Nonfiction Editor Spotlight: Karolyn Gehrig
For Issue 8 Each editor was asked to pick a theme. Karolyn Gehrig will be reading nonfiction on the theme of Bodies of Evidence. Read on to learn more. Karolyn Gehrig, our nonfiction editor for issue 8, is a queer disabled artist, writer, advocate and performer known for creating #HospitalGlam, a social media based movement which uses site specific … Continue reading
May/June Poetry Editor Spotlight: Kamden Hilliard
For Issue 8 Each editor was asked to pick a theme. Kamden Hilliard will be reading poetry on the theme Crash The Margins and is looking for experimental work from POC and QTPOC writers. Read on to learn more. Kamden Hilliard, our poetry editor for issue 8, is a poet and educator. He is the author of … Continue reading
Poetry by John Arias
Tres recuerdos en verso I. The Legendary Children we are all snakes devouring and being devoured by those who remind us we are human II. Apsis there is no perigee where we’re standing but if there is such a thing as witchcraft, use it now before I leave without saying your … Continue reading
Fiction by Kyle Getz
It all started when dad made me sign up for football. I was really little, and when I told him I didn’t want to, he said, “It will turn you into the man you’re going to become,” and we didn’t say anything else for the rest of the car ride. And, looking back on it, I guess he was right, but not for the reasons he thought. Continue reading
Fiction by Chelsea Gleason
Womb In my dream, it had green eyes and light-brown skin. I couldn’t make out a gender, and none of the doctors in the white room I stood in spoke of one. It looked up at me with those big green eyes, almost reptilian. I was terrified. It was mine, I was sure, but its … Continue reading
The James Franco Review 