

Issue 5: Space Age meets Baby Teeth
Space Age
In another life I'm a translator of alien languages scrolling across the Martian plains in orbit.
The Weather of Perception
Between a tiny Salvadorian restaurant and a pharmacy, a liminal region improbably sustains life.
Panicle
The social club was dim, and yet I lived there for years.
In Vitro Specimens
She is a good patient, carries her body like a brighter coat.
The Understudy Studies Hands
I take my understudy to the mall surrounded by highways and concrete.
The First Procedure
Her legs are made to spread
between steel. Each day's
examining room, paper stuck
under sweating skin.
New Faves: Kathryn Savage Introduces Liz Blood
I am eight years old and lose eight baby teeth this year.
After Reading the Farmer’s Almanac
I have never learned a damn thing in my whole life.
The Luminous Woman
She was known to suffer—

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