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Lithium & High Heels

By | 2022-09-18T13:04:58-07:00 September 29th, 2022|Categories: Issue 137: 29 September 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

By Heather Dorn   Barbie’s feet come preformed for sexiness, but the rest of us must learn to curve our arches like a playground slide. We start young, even as babies, barely able to walk, staggering up church or pageant stage steps—sparkling quarter inch heels, lace dresses, makeup bruising our eyelids blue, punching our cheeks red. [...]

2020 Summer Olympics: Tokyo Games Medal Count

By | 2021-09-12T13:05:37-07:00 September 22nd, 2021|Categories: Issue 133: 22 September 2021|Tags: , , , , , , |

By Tara Campbell * as of July 13 ** as of September 8   Tara Campbell is a writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, and fiction co-editor at Barrelhouse. She received her MFA from American University. In addition to Writers Resist, previous publication credits include SmokeLong Quarterly, Masters Review, Wigleaf, Jellyfish Review, Booth, Strange Horizons, and CRAFT Literary. [...]

Closet Rules

By | 2020-10-27T21:44:49-07:00 October 29th, 2020|Categories: Issue 121: 29 October 2020|Tags: , , , , |

By Avra Margariti   The first rule of sex doll club is, you get used to getting used. The second rule is, you will be forgotten by your human before your super-realistic, horsehair-eyelash, colored-glass eyes can blink. And blink we did. Here in the storage closet: slumped, folded, no longer expected to perform. The darkness a [...]