issue 100 – VAGABOND CITY

Blindfolded by Jonathan Memmert

I saw in the otherslessons unlearned never my own mirrorin the fog of necessity captive to believed true visionnow I stand before the firing squad don’t blindfold my complicitytarget my oppression my genocide I commitI placed on others no relief in sight an insightno protection paid protection my light unto… darkensdims to horizons self contempt […]

Everything, issue 100, Prose

count the flowers by Salma Ahmed

Her mother told her to look after their garden. She gathered the small flowers and laidthem next to each other. She carefully kissed every flower like they meant the world toher. She gave them names. The garden was her everything, but the bombs took it away.She drew flowers on red papers, thinking her family gave […]

Everything, issue 100, Prose

Rewilding by Patricia Russo

The old woman sat on some front steps, playing catch with herself with a bright orangeball, tossing it high with her right hand, catching it in her left, tossing it less high with her left,catching it in her right. A man, pausing to light a cigarette, looked at her and laughed. She tossedthe ball, caught […]

Everything, Fiction, issue 100, Prose

two unnamed twins by Quinn Huang

I was never meant to carry these twins with me. They sprung up on me, latching onto me like apair of weights I couldn’t stop lifting. Baggy clothes and sweaters three sizes up used to concealthem, but I’m well into the stages where there’s no hiding them anymore. Now that they’reshowing, people are beginning to […]

Everything, issue 100, Poetry

Amelia by Connor Donovan

With viscous clouds of lighthair-thin on your Vaseline lips. Pearl-lit sweat through yourravine hands. This is not half of the half that I remember:the kerosene whistle of your skin, spit collecting in the saw-toothof your mouth. Your blue-smothered eyes. Everything I remember is noteverything I wanted. Nor is it anything that I did not.There was […]

Everything, issue 100, Poetry

Molding Mouths by Ravneet Kaur Sandhu

My mother asks us to be quiet, to not let words come before thoughts.And I think of women kept in cagesIn houses where they kill the birds. My mother asks us to not make trouble.She pours wax in our open mouths and it hardensI obey and my teeth leave impressions. When I try to swim, […]

Creative Nonfiction, Everything, issue 100

Outside the Box by Sara Streeter

My daughter Lily disappears into a cardboard box and emerges as a terrifying T-Rex. She attacks, roaring, and eager to eat me, her own human mother. Neighbors on the sidewalk observe us, me, an Asian woman and her child, playing chase in the yard. To them, we are plainly a pair. They don’t know I […]

Everything, issue 100, Poetry

held in common by Serah Wolfe

To hoard –silent stare,light flickeringmouth agapeand emptyswallows withheldwithering vineimperfect harvest.Evenworm riddledthe apple sweetensand buzzes.Evenunlapped,the juice ripens.A symphonyunstruck. Serah Wolfe is a poet, painter, and writer dwelling in the American Midwest.

Fiction, issue 100, Poetry

There Is No Memory In the Sky of Other Days (It Comes Into My Blood, And I Cry For It) by Geoffrey Wessel

It brightens as the sunComes up, uncomplaining, again,Into the same sky it forsook last night.My eyes are the same, too.Blood has dried on my sheets, leaving a mark. My tears have dried, leaving none. And the sky will build up clouds to hide the sun,I know. And the Earth will turn,Cry though I willFor the […]

Everything, issue 100, Issue 98, Now Read This

Now Read This: October 2024

Highlighting recently released and forthcoming works by marginalized creators No One Knows Their Blood Type by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat (Translated by Hazem Jamjoum) No One Knows Their Blood Type is a novel of identity, belonging, and conflicting truths—of stories, secrets, songs, rumors, and lies. On the day that her father dies, Jumana makes a discovery […]

Everything, issue 100

In Review: Chronicles of a Village by Nguyễn Thanh Hiên, translated by Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng

In the Translator’s Afterword to Nguyễn Thanh Hiện’s Chronicles of a Village, QuyênNguyễn-Hoàng describes the role of the translator as “someone trying to grasp not only therhythm or tone, but the scent of the text” (131). The scent of these words lingers with me afterreading Nguyễn-Hoàng’s translation of Nguyễn’s “timely and timeless” novel (130). Chroniclesof […]

Fiction, issue 100, Prose

A Public Space by Bryana Lorenzo

I got on a steamboat run by a whistling mouse in a navy gray hat and overalls. No gloves. His name escapes me. Apparently, it’s under trademark. He’s still under trademark. Not copyright. Or, at least, his likeness with the red pants and white gloves and mustard yellow shoes is under trademark. So. No. Gloves. […]

Everything, issue 100

An Interview with Abby Richardson

Abby Richardson’s approach to photography focuses on documenting “the unnoticed, untouched moments.” Drawing influence from haiku poetry and the slow, steady harmony of nature, Richardson finds joy in the profound, meditative aspects of art. Tell us about yourself; How did you get your start in photography? I have always liked photography, but I got my […]