Combination of Cecilia Vicuña’s “Amaranta” (1972) and photo by Zane Lindsay
Feedback Loop

With each impulse, the current your heart siphons from the phone line will slowly render the vision of Self in vibrant color. Your grey tongue will begin to blush, too. When it swells with the metal-sweet taste of saffron, you will know that this vision of Self is real enough to power its own flow.

Altar Call

DJB’s “Altar Call” opens, “Philonia received the scariest phone call she never imagined, she prayed…

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Men are not Mirrors

[“Not all scars/are permanent,” is the balm of the story Cabrera illustratesover the course of…

A Closed Circuit

This flash piece reminds us of the many ways we’ve all been “washed in loneliness.”…

Fractured Composition

We loved this story for the way it highlights how memories splinter, leaving us with…

I Cannot Explain My Heart

Love and people are complicated, and “I Cannot Explain My Heart” knows this in every…

Alight

The arsonist in me salivateswhen I see the chandelier made of matcheshanging from the hook…

Skeletons

[“I am trying to write a fictionalized story about the terrors of change for the…

Once You’ve Gone Back Home

[We loved this piece for its thoughtful exploration of the friendships that both stain and…

The Ferrante Project: The Freedom of Anonymity

We, the editors for The Ferrante Project, having finished a bottle of Mezcal in one…