Everything, Fiction, Issue 88

Tribute to a Friend by Chris Klassen

I’m in a race with my lungs. Well, not so much with them as against them. They haven’t been very accommodating lately. And for full transparency, they’re not really my lungs, I’m just using them to the best of my abilities. They belonged to someone else once, someone who, I heard unofficially, didn’t survive a […]

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Everything, Issue 88, Poetry

balcony / break by Michael Russell

Michael Russell (he/they) is coauthor of chapbook Split Jawed with Elena Bentley (forthcoming from Collusion Books) and mother monster to chapbook Grindr Opera (Frog Hollow Press). They are queer, mad, and overflowing with anxiety. Currently, he has a craving for chocolate chip pancakes with bananas and thinks you’re fantabulous. Insta: @michael.russell.poet Michael’s previous piece: sadcore […]

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Everything, Fiction, Issue 88

Mystic Will by Audrey T. Carroll

Even after Phoebe returned from the funeral, she couldn’t bring herself to make any more half-hearted attempts at getting something on the canvas. The shades were never bright enough, the lines looked stiff and lifeless. Phoebe had tried different tools, different mediums, different canvas sizes. Nothing worked anymore. She decided to distract herself before bed, […]

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Everything, Issue 88, Poetry

antonyms for fucking w/ all the lights off by Liam Strong

leeks,bulbs lit of pencils,of expulsion,space between shared space ;commonality,cataract a similar sounding moan,cascade from  precipice|picked up a hair tie on a hiking trail the other day,burst thereafter,then morning;trillium & sumac–we ’re less animal than we expect,tapetum lucidum,mammalia of the mirror| amatoxin in amanita verna;aversion of blood type O to all else:lover stay back,i don’t know […]

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Everything, Issue 88, Poetry

David Bowie doesn’t carry my ex-boyfriends in his arms down the street anymore by Liam Strong

Liam Strong (they/them) is a queer neurodivergent cottagecore straight edge punk writer who has earned their BA in writing from University of Wisconsin-Superior. They are the author of the chapbook everyone’s left the hometown show (Bottlecap Press, 2023). You can find their poetry and essays in Impossible Archetype and Emerald City, among several others. They […]

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Everything, Issue 88, Poetry

SONG AGAINST MYSELF by Zachary Bond

In the greasy morning mirrors I barely even acknowledge myself And I can’t remember how to sing Songs I used to know by heart Surely what’s wrong with me is not The same as what’s wrong with you Surely I comprise a special case When I pace the apartment I know I’m practicing for future […]

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Everything, Issue 88, Poetry

The Longest Summer by Alex Carrigan

After Alexandrine Ogundimu I had to scrap my memoirbecause too much of ithad to be redacted. I could talk about thestupid Doc Martens I woreto my retail job every daywithout a cease and desist, but to talk about what myfather said to my motherwould put me against a wall. My father would tie a silk […]

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Everything, Issue 88, Poetry

Wild = Wind by Alex Carrigan

About what’s past, Hold on when you can, I used to say,And when you can’t, let go,let the wind blow through your heart. Like a leaf clings to the tree,I lived, in those days, at the forest’s edge–You must keep what you’ve promisedvery close to your heart, that way you’ll never forgetis what I’ve always […]

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Art, Everything, Issue 88

Collage of Previous Featured Artists

Featured Artists (from top left to bottom right) Maggie Chiang (Issue 8) Lorenza Centi (Issue 13) Isa Beniston (Issue 16) Andrew Holmquist (Issue 21) Monica Andino (Issue 25) Ramona Russu (Issue 36) Alexandra Dumitrică (Issue 39) Alyssa Moore (Issue 29) Danielle Morgan (Issue 42) Georgie Wileman (Issue 48) Pride Nyasha (Issue 33) Neha Hirve (Issue […]

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