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Toads and Maidens

By | 2021-01-04T16:14:00-08:00 January 7th, 2021|Categories: Issue 126: 07 January 2021|Tags: , , , |

By Carol Casey   Don’t assume, because some creature rests in your palm, that it is safe. It knows it’s not. A toad, dry, rough, bumpy texture like braille—read the message: I’m better free. My biochemical language is telling you something vital in the only way I have: I want to be free. I can make [...]

tell me you’re open

By | 2020-12-22T16:00:01-08:00 December 24th, 2020|Categories: Issue 125: 24 December 2020|Tags: , , , , |

By A. Martine Editor’s warning: sexual violence   i wake from the dream with gashes in my chest snakes turning warm on my blood half-interred in the wounds while i go maybe it was me surely it was me, surely it was me athena would have torn them from me and slung them at my head [...]