First, a bed made of sleep. Then, rubied crowns stacked into kings or cracked into
jesters.
Issue 88
Aaron Landsman: Lysis
At 11½, while the boys around me were turning muscled and thick voiced, I stayed knock-kneed. Whenever I spoke, a battle raged in my throat between the forces of alto and bass, with neither side able to claim victory for long. My father the Philosophy professor was my best friend. We lived together on Maple […]
Christina Yu: Jellyfish
In middle school, I glimpse a trailer for a popular action adventure movie starring an A-list heart-throb and an unknown foreign actress with a melancholy down-turned mouth. She is not unusually beautiful, not compared to others, and not particularly gifted either. And yet, there is a three-second clip in the trailer which I enjoy: the […]
Matthew Burgess
Matthew Burgess teaches creative writing and composition at Brooklyn College. He has been a poet-in-residence in New York City elementary schools since 2001, and currently he is completing his PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lungfull!, Hanging Loose, EOAGH, Court Green, and Ping Pong, and he recently […]
Lara Egger
Lara Egger was born and raised in Adelaide, Australia. She currently lives in Boston where she co-owns Estragon, a Spanish tapas bar. Lara divides her time between restauranting, writing, and angel-spotting. Her work has appeared in Confrontation, New Millennium Writings and she was the recipient of the Arts & Letters 2013 Rumi Prize for Poetry. […]
Emma Smith-Stevens
Emma Smith-Stevens’ stories have appeared in Subtropics, Conjunctions, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. Originally from New York City, she lives in Gainesville, Florida where she is writing a novel.