About a month ago, we put out a submission call with more or less one rule, and the rule was for us: We’d accept every single submission we got. Why? We don’t know. Because we’d never it seen it done before (though it may well have been), because it felt like something of a statement (about what, we’re not sure), because it was funny (it was). So we opened wide the gates for 20 brief minutes, and in those 20 minutes we received more than 400 submissions.
We’ve read all 400+ of them. That’s what this is: the product of 60+ hours of reading and formatting. You’ll find in this funny little webpage in this obscure little corner of the internet a galaxy, a constellation of artworks that are surprising, funny, inventive, arresting, head-scratching, spellbinding, moving, electric, unforgettable. We challenged writers to send “whatever,” and they gave us everything.
Thank you, writers. Among your ranks are dozens of nationalities, ages ranging from singles digits to septuagenarians. Fiction writers, essayists, poets, visual artists, anonymous collectives. This is a collaboration, more than anything. A mural of your work on the side of a sidescraper. Or maybe a collage magnet-bound to the fridge. Whatever it is, it’s special. It’s you.
All our love,
The editors.
- June | Morgan Longford
- August | Emily Schmidt
- Love Poem for Blucifer | Bella Rotker
- 3 Poems | Ivory Dee
- Joe | Sam Campbell
- pea pod triptych | Allegra Stevenson-Kaplan
- Dyes | Garrett Mostowski
- Mountain Food | Dylan Mabe
- i wonder if anyone can recognize my softness anymore | James Remick
- Hearts of Sea Glass | C.R. Hoaglund
- Now or Now or Never | Sam Gordon Webb
- BREATHE | Peyton Hines
- Bunching Up For The Photo | Merri Andrew
- Sorry, My Mistake | Nona Parker
- To the dog lost in divorce: | Alison Lubar
- ERR:DIVIDEBY0 | Viency Lee
- The Will of Crandolph Fitzgerald-Mayhew | Isaac and Abbie Fox and Hoffer
- momma always calls me country for walking barefoot outside the house | Mea Anderson
- Kaleidoscope Shades | Angelique Woodruff
- Pals of A Porous ‘Pitcher’ | Sophia Tang
- Time Capsule | Allison Blisss
- Bewilderment Motel | Elizabeth George
- yet another poetic way to say ‘i love you’ without saying ‘i love you’ | Joyce Kung
- To all the humans | Graham Bishop
- Fastening Up the Feathers On My Back | Ari Shey
- As Soon As I Finish This Chapter | Cindy Cramer
- Bell’s Lane | Keith Taylor
- Do You Understand? | Shirley Aparicio
- Genesis (the band?) | Daisy Rosenstock
- Goddamn Radical Left, Eatin All My Corn Nuts | Gark Mavigan
- Exorcising My Childhood | Bill Budde
- Miasma | Ilan Jones
- The Great Devourer | Elyn Turne
- we say goodbye at your door, 3 months before your death | Shufei Ewe
- The Mythology of Violence | Alorah Welti
- Mothers | I. Thielking
- Carry Weight | Sarah Boyd
- Untitled | Zion Taylor
- Tyrant | Riley Labrador
- I am in Big Trouble | Bryan Zhan
- Eleventh Hour | Andrew Miller
- Corral Fire on the Scratch Gravel Hills | Georg Sperle
- Hand of God II | Mahika Mukherjee
- Matthew 7.27 | Fenn MacDonald
- stormy | Brandon Shane
- Uninvited | Joe Feuille
- Holy Ghost | Megan Gilley
- Gatekeepers of the Soul | Briana Craig
- Two-Sided Necklace | Kaylee Stull
- home is on the way there | Rosalind Aparicio-Ramirez
- Shoe Horn | S. G. Mallett
- Maury | Matthew Dunko
- times up! | Julia Gobes
- Brujxs | Alex V. Cruz
- One Week of Violent Sci-Fi Movie Dreams | Meg Lubey
- Separate Spheres | Veronica Good
- Victim | Deborah Akubudike
- The Run | Allyson Mazzuchi
- Towards a Therapeutic Understanding of Contrarianism | Colton Huelle
- Framing October in My Bedroom Window | Jenny Wong
- Fish (A Riddle) | Brooke Yu
- I Cried Alone in the Dark at the Historic Capitol Theater | Jensen Soderlund
- 21 | Michaela Brown
- Stone in the Wood | Ryan Coleman
- meals after wisdom teeth removal | Erika Jing
- 3pm | Kayla “El” J
- You’re Not What I Thought | Alexis Crafts
- Ghosts | Dustin Michael
- Reverie | Alex Tamei
- The Task List | Katrina Otuonye
- the drop | June Drake
- alone at the party. | Ang Cruz
- Seann Barbour | The Book of Lives Unlived
- Hand of God I | Mahika Mukherjee
- Quiet Eyes | Angelica Suero
- If Only | Tedi Symons
- Cosmogony | Eric Craft
- Tiddlywinks | D.O. Missroon
- I Can’t Wait | Wangithi
- Yearn | Valorie Clark
- Wes Viola | Wood Have
- Digitalmanic | Deanna Faye
- Winter Bush Maintenance | Susan Yim
- XXIX | Sylvia Santiago
- Untitled | N. Jones
- House of Cards | Kobe Batong
- Posted on Living in Burbville | Toni Plummer
- Sight | J.B. McLaurin
- Jonathan Pessant | In My Boule
- Timothy C Goodwin | Start ‘Em Early
- To Live | Nes Eyre
- Japan Ghost | Rachel Ward
- Shellfish | Aliyah Curry
- Gabe’s Problem Child | Shane Young
- Procrastinate This | Julia Eldred
- The Toy Man | Ivory Wyndham-Howard
- Wee Hours | A. Hubley
- Torn from the pages of a Used Android Catalogue: PHOENIX | Chris Airiau
- A Storm | Rebecca Maule
- X.O.F. Smells | Rick Danforth