valentine’s day
poetry
Before the Station / Celestial Lovesong, B-Side / Now, I write you | poetry by Alison Lubar
“I am / all fireworks”
Cardinals Mate for Life / At the End of the World, At Least We’ll Have This | poetry by Claire Taylor
“I cue you in: it’s bad news, baby”
steep / and it is home | poetry by Giovanna Lomanto
“enjambed between city / streets and striding over the borders of the pacific”
agnes, again. / Mimine | poetry by Lorelei Bacht
“I had missed / all of her previous hands”
Exaptation or, The Stars Dangle from Their Ear / & there was an island | poetry by Rick Hollon
“You incise my earlobe + I’m nervous”
Whale Song | poetry by Rosalie Mountain
“There is no force / Like lust pinning up the evening.”
prose
love in the time of the green heart emoji | fiction by E.A. Garfield
“Mitchel had snapped his gum and smiled, said simply, ‘Do you remember what the question was?’”
If this feeling was a candy heart it would just say “GIRL HELP” | creative nonfiction by Emily Carlson
“let me kiss the amber bottle when it’s empty”
ROLLING THUNDER | fiction by John Chrostek
“He had been piloting this body his entire life and now, with the touch of a hand, the terms had changed.”
The Queen of Spades | fiction by Joseph S Klapach
“At the last chime of midnight, the room went dark.”
Dear Boy | creative nonfiction by J.T. Nagundi
“Let me be a cliché of a girl for once and admit it”
Love in Exam Room C | creative nonfiction by Mathieu Cailler
“There’s something primal about doctors’ offices. Science takes precedence, and the need to be tough fades.”
Dust | creative nonfiction by Melissa Mulvihill
“This is how it is with very old things.”
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