Issue 14: The Sea


Fiction

Flash Fiction | The Castle

“What I saw was a beauty so tremendous, it had every bone in my exoskeleton shaking.”

By Charlie Shoup

Flash Fiction | In the Bath

“In the bath, in the sea, I imagined my body independent of another, only mine from the beginning until the end. I imagined floating along forever with my own weight and nothing more.” 

By Carina Cain

Flash Fiction | Snatched

By Nicole Cushing

Flash Fiction | Of Stars and Broken Promises

By Abir Barkat

Flash Fiction | Bizarre Object

By Salma Ahmed


Poetry

Poetry | Chop

“it’s easiest to dream / when the breakwater breaks / and the tide rushes in”

By Devon Brock

Poetry | Existence

“And I, / Just like the mound of earth / My body tugged at / by death”

By Paul Alleyne

Poetry | Passenger

“The salt water pouring into her mouth and / crystallizing the chords in her throat / into jagged garnet and obsidian”

By Chloe Biggs

Poetry | Under Tempest Waters

“seeds of forbidden / fruit spilled like tears / the fig forced down”

By Ryan Bresingham

Poetry | The Stink of Heat

“What I remember is the love, / The stinking of love in all that heat”

By Lucy Richardson