Issue #19: This is the Way.
CATHERINE WEISS
Lessons I learned by watching only the first half of Boogie Nights The Shining as a metaphor for my problems, specifically |
J.C. RODRIGUEZ
fear of police, but as sci-fi, because /that/ you can understand -or, less passive aggressively- get these fucking phasers out of my face |
ALANA M. CARLSON
Female Victim #1 |
JENNIFER R. EDWARDS
I Want to Grieve Like Chewbacca |
V.C. McCABE
Villanelle for Villanelle after Killing Eve Car Full of Girls (Freshman Year, 1993, Listening to The Cranberries) Patti Smith Performs at CBGB, 1975 |
CHRISTINA LEE
At 12, I study Gwen on the Tragic Kingdom album cover and wonder |
ZACH SEMEL
Skyrim, in Retrospect |
WILL NEUENFELDT
Stone Cold Creamery |
PAULA HARRIS
self-portrait as Prince’s high-heeled boots, circa Purple Rain |
MAGGIE RUE HESS
A Tale of Tigers and Kings Ode to Cardi B Ending in an Homage to Beyonce after Hanif Abdurraqib |
JONATHAN JONES
Ali vs. Holmes (1980) SAMUEL - Son of King Kong and his descendants |
ANDREA DULANTO
Mickey Milkovich |
LAUREN LOPEZ
ode to watching hot chelle rae’s “I like it like that” music video over and over because the lead singer and I had the same shirt |
MAYA WILLIAMS
A Sestina for the Representation of Suicide in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend |
ZEBULON HUSET
The Empire Strikes Standard Syntax (an erasure from Merriam Webster’s article “Hyperbole and Other Fancy Rhetorical Words”) It Starts with Emily Dickinson and Combo Slingin’ on the Corner |
M.J. SCOTT
We're All Apes in Flip-Flops |
RACHEL MEHL
from the Monster High Files |
TYLER GILLESPIE
self-portrait at karaoke night, Or, britney spears linguistic theory |
ROY BENTLEY
Rodney Dangerfield Has Dom DeLuise Rolling on the Floor Laughing (1974) |