Everything, issue 103, Issue 98, Now Read This

Now Read This: January 2025

Highlighting recently released and forthcoming works by marginalized creators Do you have a lit journal issue, chapbook, book, or other work that’s about to be published? Email us at vagabondcityliterary@gmail.com to be added to our Books Available to Review list and/or featured on an upcoming Now Read This list.

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Everything, issue 103, Poetry

I do not need you. by Elena Sunyoung Kang

Love, I amkintsugi, shards and lacquer, I repairmyself  in gold. I am a mosaic Vesuvius cannot  erase. You willexcavate memories like fragments preserved in ash. I am Michelangelo, I make stone flow into silk. Cut me away  and I become a monument.  So hide from this collapse. Love, I am Chauvet Cave, full of art. You will miss the way I bent […]

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Everything, issue 103, Poetry

b:a:d by Addison Branson

Addison Branson (she/they) is a poet, data analyst, and anthropologist from Winston-Salem, NC. As a queer writer, they explore themes of identity, broken connection, and the disaster of human experience. When she isn’t working, Addison can often be found at a local bar enjoying a white negroni, engrossed in a book, and enthusiastically playing cards, […]

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Art, Everything, issue 103, Issues

An Interview with Frances Jane

Taking notice of the “small, in-between moments often overlooked in our daily lives,” Frances Jane’s drawings feature dappled light and dramatic shadows cast upon bold, architectural line work. The distinctive use of ink and careful rendering of textures reflects a diligent attention to detail and a reverence for “people and places that mainstream forces don’t […]

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Everything, Fiction, issue 103, Prose

El Camino Real by N.H. Van Der Haar

“Despite what he had written in his letter, Noel’s separation from his family would always be geographical. He spent the remainder of his wealthy life dining alone.” The back cover folded over the final page and turned the work into a solid, white brick. An item for production. A large wet stamp was stomped on […]

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