Day: February 12, 2026

Issue 40

Artwork by Leila Pontiga Stories ARTIST CREDIT: Leila Pontiga is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist, designer, and educator whose work moves

Stopwatch

Photo by William Warby on Unsplash by Sherrie Flick Judy clutched the stopwatch to her chest. The secondhand thunked like a bass beat.

Little Birds

Photo by Suhwa Lee on Unsplash by Sherrie Flick The big dog didn’t like the water. The little dogs dove right in, playing

Sign of the Times

Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash by Mileva Anastasiadou We don’t post. But we log in and check our feed and when Facebook

Subito[1]

Photo by Brad Switzer on Unsplash by Amy Marques In fourth grade, my mother outgrew the rural one-room schoolhouse where her mother taught.

Obituary: Sisters, an Artless, Sideways List 

Photo by Caroline Hernandez on Unsplash by Koss Co-opted familial narratives, blood shares, habits and Band-Aids; Facebook fuck-offs; shallow/egg trays; three monkeys, vapor.

Small Change

Photo by Erik Gjester on Unsplash by Andrea Marcusa Mom pulled into a gas station with rusting pumps, cheap prices, and a guy

Seventeen Years From Now,

Photo by Maxim Yuryshev on Unsplash by Laura Besley when her son asks, ‘Mummy, why do your eyes have mud round them?’ she

On a Ghostlight Night

Photo by Avi Theret on Unsplash by Pat Foran Fresh off a ghostlighting incident that left him clear-eyed and cold, the horse we

One Day One Time

Photo by Laura Rivera on Unsplash by Sandra Arnold Lift the unconnected from the gaps, let the words stream down the page, watch

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