Ashlee Lhamon | For All Your Other Daughters
Western texts date the discovery of vagina dentata to 1800 BCE, to the Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus, the oldest medical text in the world. Misalignment of the lower jaw is detailed, for which regular ...
20 Des 202334min
Lynette S. Hoag | Bête Noire
Tuesday, June 7, 2022 14:02 GMT. There is movement on the pathway for the first time in 113 days, six hours, four minutes, and five seconds. My motion sensitive cameras flicker on. I see Maker. Maker ...
6 Des 202332min
Woody Dismukes | The Curse of the Boto Boy
Even before my son was born, my village had made of me a black sheep. When I was young, I would slither between the grasp of the Elders and flitter into the jungle unabated. I would storm past the hil...
22 Nov 202331min
Sharang Biswas | Waiting for Jonah
Once upon a time, there was you and there was Jonah. “Jonah!” you would call out. “Jonah, it’s me! Let me in!” But he’d never let you in. Before you turned ten, the inside of Jonah’s room remained as ...
8 Nov 202344min
David Janisch | The Cello in the Cell
Dear Andy: The day I was arrested, someone bought the winning Powerball lottery ticket that was worth 1.2 billion dollars. I remember dreaming what I would have done if I had won. You might not believ...
18 Okt 202335min
Rachael K. Jones | The Sound of Children Screaming
You know the one about the Gun. The Gun goes where it wants to. On Thursday morning just after recess, the Gun will walk through the front doors of Thurman Elementary, and it won’t sign in at the fron...
4 Okt 202349min
Donyae Coles | The Ascension of Magdalene
It felt a little like fucking. Reminded Magdalene of the first time she’d ever let a boy get a hand up her skirt, long before Ben but he didn’t know that, she wore white on her wedding day. Couldn’t e...
20 Sep 202315min
Nightmare of a Million Faces | Pedro Iniguez
When the sun plunged beneath the horizon, the striations of red clouds looked like gashes raked across the sky; flayed wounds ready to rain blood on a thirsty desert. Anastasia Mendez offered her left...
5 Sep 202341min
