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Issue 9

Release Date: Aug 30, 2025

This is not just a coloring book. This is a literary safari through the back alleys of the imagination, where birds wear bowler hats, furniture talks in haiku, and time occasionally collapses like a soufflé at a drum circle. The pages herein are portals. Uncolored, they hum softly with potential like an unplugged guitar at the edge of a campfire. But once your crayons, pencils, markers, grandmother’s lipstick, or undiluted spraytan touch them—bam! They ignite. They bloom with wordworks from Tali Chais, Margaret Davenport, Tucker Leighty-Phillips, Maya Beck, David Barber, Michael Pershan, Lis Anna-Langston, Pete Stevens, Gabriella Giambanco, Josh Orr, Rolli, Angela Townsend, Karen Kilcup, Vince Montague, Philip Jason, Carlota Gamboa, Alexander Perez, Jones Irwin, Despy Boutris, Sarah Aziz, and Gia Clark-Grillo.

Stories
  • Agent, Angel, Alien
  • Bone Worms and Other Friends
  • Gloria Gaynor Thinks You’re a Bitch
  • Stupid Wolves
  • Ta-Da, Presenting Carla Rose!
  • The Marshmallow Experiment
  • The Things We Lose
  • The Widower
Essays
  • Josh the Wretched
  • Smuggling in Saints
  • Tale of Two Brains
  • The Malevolent Octopus: A Brief Dream Odyssey
Poems
  • (Untitled)
  • 97
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985) Dir. Jack Sholder
  • ballad of the rear window
  • Court Satellite
  • David Lynch and 5 Woodpeckers
  • For the First Time in Months, I Don’t Eat Until Hungry
  • Mirrors (Mourning)
  • My Sexuality Autocompleted, or I Learned Today that Siri’s Homophobic
  • Mystics in Bali (1981) Dir. Tjut Djalil
  • Of Western Civilisation
  • Password Recovery
  • Poems for a Diagnosis
  • Pretentious
  • Reckless
  • Self-Assessment
  • Sorcerer (1977) Dir. William Friedkin
  • The Driller Killer (1979) Dir. Abel Ferrara
  • The Sound
  • Turner’s Ghost
  • Want
  • Wedded
  • when the body is the mother tongue