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The Saturday Shift

I signed up for junior year abroad and left California with little money on the pretext of studying literature and art, but traveling for...

Nevermore

This trail also led me to conclude, firstly, that so many things remain quietly connected, and secondly, that history is the unceasing attempt to...

Relationship, Redacted

For as long as I can remember, you reminisced. About life during World War II, about seeing Sinatra with your friends at the Brooklyn...

Swimming in an Asylum

Repton Park, Woodford Green, London. It was Christmastime and The Virgin Active sign was filled-in with tinsel. Glass barriers slid open and a track-suited...

An Interview with Hesse Phillips, Author of Lightborne

On Queer Ancestors, Stubbornness, and Living “Close to the Knives”: A conversation with Hesse Phillips’ about their debut novel, Lightborne Famed poet and playwright Christopher...

Navalny, Poetry, and Truth

On the morning I heard that the Russian political activist, Alexei Navalny, had died in a Siberian prison, I was mournful but not surprised. “So...

One Good Horse

Author's Note: "One Good Horse" is a nostalgic piece of creative nonfiction, told in a first-person narrative and stylized in the voice of an...

Bar Talk

A Novel, a Flash, and a Poem walk into a bar. Considering itself of a higher order, the Poem decides where to sit. When...

Joy

The Deep End

Anxious Angels

You fill my throat with feathers, hush the night like owls— +++++hiss of hunter between the ears. You count down the days to that brutal miracle, anniversary of...

Holyland, USA

The Spot

What’s Left Unsaid

Advice

Ask Annie: How Writers Should Read

Writers, especially those just starting out, should read omnivorously, insatiably, constantly, selfishly, and slowly. So slowly that the flow and rhythms of the prose...

Further Reading