Volume 8

May 2023 - August 2023

Susanna Wood

Sparkler

Sofia Driscoll

Gatekeeper. et. al.

Nora Hikari

HELLWOMAN GIRLSCAPE QUEEN OF BLADES [SPOILER ALERT]

Nora Hikari

TRANSPHOBE CARNAGE THEATER

Abigail Denton

How to Make Myself Small

Jesslyn Whittell

[ASMR] Can I touch your face? or Yes ¹


Sadee Bee

Cry Until I Quake

Sophie Dufresne

The Irony of Labels

nat raum

my body’s looking wrong

Rebecca Wood

Fatigue

Maria Guarino

Memo 3

Phoebe Rodriguez

Hystera

Kailyn Frederick

My Tendencies Tend to Hurt:

Jessica Clasky

I’m afraid of dogs

Jessica Clasky

from Half Moon

Carson Sandell

An Unfinished List of My Favorite Things, But Love You More Than

/I want the boys to look but
not see/facedown/I play weightless/

Susanna Wood, Sparkler

It's easier to nurture my unworthiness, to believe
that any same person would leave such a tangle behind

Sofia Driscoll, Gatekeeper. et. al.

White brush script on a black background that reads: every day modern wonders are born into this world in a flash of light and a whisper of sutures and a clatter of pills

Nora Hikari, HELLWOMAN GIRLSCAPE QUEEN OF BLADES [SPOILER ALERT]

WE HAVE BEEN HELD HERE. A BLADE
TO OUR THROATS. TRYING HARD NOT TO QUIVER

Nora Hikari, TRANSPHOBE CARNAGE THEATER

we are fat, we understand that
about each other, and we know that we are making ourselves small
for the world

Abigail Denton, How to Make Myself Small

I am afraid to have a
body that can act on others. Be acted on.

Jesslyn Whittell, [ASMR] Can I touch your face? or Yes ¹

It begins with the delicate binding / set wrists / sturdy ankles / the deep desire / To let go /

Sadee Bee, Cry Until I Quote

floating
in the void:
somewhere
between normal
and "other"

Sophie Dufrense, The Irony of Labels

wronger than spread legs
at fourteen. wronger than girl
was for me - wrong

nat raum, my body's looking wrong

This slow moving body through honey

Anchored. Pulled.

Towards bed

Rebecca Wood, Fatigue

How are you?
[makes coffee]
[sigh]
[smiles]
[cries]

Maria Guarino, Memo 3

My women friends are going half insane:
             half from their men, half from their mothers.

Phoebe Rodríguez, Hystera

Keep looking at me like that baby
The only time I can be selfish
Is with my nails in your flesh,
My teeth against your neck,

Kailyn Frederick, My Tendencies Tend to Hurt:

To care for
a creature who hurts me without meaning to
is a tenderness I can’t stomach; to hurt
a creature who doesn’t understand its own pain
is an impulse I can’t escape.

Jillian Clasky, I’m afraid of dogs

I am terrified of loneliness but mostly I am terrified of letting you know -

Jillian Clasky, from Half Moon

11. when you said teach me how to love you correctly. my syllabus is thirty pages of just hold me.

Carson Sandell, An Unfinished List of My Favorite Things, But Love You More Than