2023 | issue 6.0
Table of Contents
Lady in the White Dress; Missing Her Abstinence
Nia Simone, 2023
CATEGORIES
Creative Prose
Delusion Land
Jacob Papadopoulos runs ahead of me, past the turnstile and the shag teddy bear mascot, launching his petite 50-year-old...
Hunger
Sunaina stood in the back room of the house. Painted canvases and framed paintings leaned against each other along the...
The Summer I Bit Myself to the Bone
On my knees in front of him, I try to picture him as an altar. I don’t pray, and I also don’t particularly believe in god,...
Nothing to Worry About
“I’ll go and tend to the roses!” Gerald hitched up the rusty wheelbarrow and pushed it along the wooden path. He was...
Nothing Ever Happens and I’m Not Allowed to Tell
All the men in my life have problems that seem easy to fix, but none of them ever seem to fix them. I find it hard to...
Neurotech Nightmare
Bo didn’t know how long he’d been sitting on the cold tiled bathroom floor. Maybe five or ten or thirty minutes. He'd...
Essays
Poetics of the Data/Body: Intimating Data Visualization After the Post-Internet Turn
When I was a kid, “internet” was still written with a capital “I,” the Internet, like a first-person pronoun, a discrete...
Writing The Distance
Originally an act of defiance, I began riding bikes religiously in fall 2012, when I enrolled in courses at Mission,...
The Most Alive Dead Band of All
Eight years after their first tour in 2015, Dead & Company are calling it quits this summer. Their final shows are...
Still
You have the same face. It’s as if she never left, says Tío Jorge as he pulls me in for an embrace in front of the El...
More Than Just Words and Numbers
The snails were in different places. I knelt on Mrs. V.’s living room couch watching the tetras school around blue-finned...
My Body Can’t Be Trusted
I was six years old when I got an insulin pump. My body was so small that we used a pink dog collar to secure the pump to...
Of Lights
Hours before the New Year, a blackout fell upon the neighborhood. Electricity outages, of course, are expected in Karachi....
Damages
Cleanse, tone, apply serum, moisturizer, rosehip oil—these were the five steps of my mother’s skincare routine. If you do...
Poetry
What Occurs to Me This Morning
like how you say every day you never wanted
a dog, and like how you swear, as you stroke her
lonely and great god
my spine is curved & looking down on the earth.the other day, a stranger raised my chin up with her finger, asked the...
Renting a Room at Home
My house is furnished with jars of tar and spit they don’t belong to me but take up the empty spaces Leave...
Concave Seats
Days that walk in slippers andbrush baby hairdid not hear fatherstell other tall men I madea mistake withcigarette...
For Dionne Brand, or, Another Person in Another Place
Mysteries conjugate. Mystery conjugates. What becomes of clarity. In the final remove. Time as time. The past involves...
Us
Us,romping in the uncut grasseswe gathered across decades.Us, our hands, squeezingthe desperate pigments from four soured...
Coitus, 1915, Egon Schiele
I remember fondness dirtier. The stark contour, your touch. The things we’ll do bereft of nerves. The...
Visual Arts
Finn Petrie Portfolio
The Ghosts of Future Trees The Ghosts of Future Trees expands upon a previous project, Epiphytic Memory (2022), where Finn...
Nia Simone Profile
Nia Simone In this series of self-portraits, Compton-based artist Nia Simone uses her surrealist style and the vivid colors...
Masthead
EDITORIAL
| Becca Raney Carolyn Schweitzer Delarys Ramos Estrada Emma Hardy Heather Davis Isabel Griffith-Gorgati Kathleen Escarcha Madina Tuhbatullina Max Rothschild |
Mona Hassanzadeh Nairi Simonyan Precious Okpechi Ryan Morillo Sam Warford Tanya Shirazi Thaïs Miller Wendi Bootes |
COPYEDITING
| Antonio Lenzo Hira Ahmed Klaus Andrieu Madeline Johnson |
Salwa Tareen Samantha English Shameeka Wilson Tien Nguyen |
ART DIRECTION
| Beth Chapman Billy Lezra Raymond Vasquez Tomás Miriti Pacheco Yin Yuan |
PRODUCTION
| Beth Chapman Carolyn Schweitzer Emma Hardy Hira Ahmed Klaus Andrieu Madeline Johnson Madina Tuhbatullina Nairi Simonyan |
Precious Okpechi Raymond Vasquez Salwa Tareen Shameeka Wilson Tanya Shirazi Thaïs Miller Tien Nguyen Yin Yuan |
SOCIAL MEDIA
| Antonio Lenzo Becca Raney Billy Lezra Delarys Ramos Estrada Heather Davis Isabel Griffith-Gorgati Kathleen Escarcha |
Max Rothschild Mona Hassanzadeh Ryan Morillo Sam Warford Samantha English Tomás Miriti Pacheco Wendi Bootes |
ADVISORS
JONATHAN HAHN, FACULTY ADVISOR, EDITORIAL
LIVIA LIMA, PUBLAB MANAGER
EMILY THOMPSON, PUBLAB COORDINATOR
MICHELLE CHIHARA, EDITORIAL ADVISOR
AJ URQUIDI, COPYDESK ADVISOR
MAYA CHEN, MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS ADVISOR
IRENE YOON, PRODUCTION ADVISOR
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