Questions and Answers, by Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi
Questions and Answers س و ج what do you know about home? – سi know of voices that swivel into purple song, – جtongues forced to sleep under the…
issue 26
Death Is a Diner at 3:00 a.m., by A.C. Wise
The far stall in the ladies room in the Land of the Dead was backed up again. The day had already started terribly, with an email that hit my phone as I walked the 387 steps from my staff cabin to the front desk, an email from Lana saying Vera, I wanted you to find out directly from me that I’ve started seeing somebody. Call if you want to talk.
Ask a Necromancer, by Amanda Downum
An Inconvenient Corpse Jamie asks about “how/where/when to die for maximum inconvenience.” A flippant question deserves a flippant response, but let me begin on a serious note: A human being…
Behiihoo, by Sunnie Smith-Ishtimonabi’
For Lunda, chi hollo li Someone once told me That the weight of the unfinished story of you is too/ much/ to carryI had never seen things this way because it has…
Be Like Sesame, by Vijayalakshmi Sridhar
Last night, the iron lid on the unused backyard well got thrown off. The rusted, soldered latticed rods that had lain unmoved for ages had come off. Everyone said it…
bonelight, by Lucas Enne
lift her from the watercolor seaso easy to sink in the backwatersdon’t claw cracks in deep marinethose beasts once drowned weren’tgod after all her skin is leviathan tooth-pockedbloodfall waterdrip in…
There’s a Door to the Land of the Dead in the Land of the Dead, by Sarah Pinsker
The far stall in the ladies room in the Land of the Dead was backed up again. The day had already started terribly, with an email that hit my phone as I walked the 387 steps from my staff cabin to the front desk, an email from Lana saying Vera, I wanted you to find out directly from me that I’ve started seeing somebody. Call if you want to talk.