Issue 121 – VAGABOND CITY

Bodies Warm and Cold by Alix Perry

Tell me something about the desert. Something more. I can tell it haunts you. I remember the hissing of the creosote bushes. We would set up in these brick ruins and use two adjoining walls for shelter from the constant wind. Flecks of sand still floated above and around. However slowly, we were being buried. […]

Creative Nonfiction, Everything, Issue 121, Prose

A Break in the Wall by Katie McHugh

A break in the wall.If we ignore the ontological difference, the immense nothingness between the thing in its being and the being of the thing, we will miss the possibility of our own establishment as human beings in the existence in which we are immersed. —Ricardo Escarduça on 1984, an exhibition by Teresa Milheiro We […]

Everything, Issue 121, Issue 98, Now Read This

Now Read This: July 2026

Highlighting recently released and forthcoming works by marginalized creators Lightning in Our Roots by Avis Blackbird In Lightning in Our Roots, Avis Blackbird invites the reader on a journey to feel Indigenous fluidity of space and time, the impact of colonization, enduring connections to the land, lived urbanized experience, and finally the rising hope of Indigenous […]

Everything, Issue 121, Poetry

[5] by Katy Gero

here a view of the sea:achy blue, w/ fresh mist knit into your hair like wool. the surfers snip lithe lines,taut watercolor cheer. she eyes the pleasantries. i have been deeply depressedbut start to see her as she is: segmented & all one, at peacew/ her ever changing roar. did you ever think you could […]

Everything, Issue 121, Poetry

Written in soot on the safe room wall by Eli N.

After Dan Pagis, for Joel Beinin נכתב באפר על קיר הממ״דאחרי דן פגיס, בשביל ג’ואל בייניןאני הדודסודום חטפה את הילד(ה) של אחיאני עומד מול אדוני עם תוכניתוואומר מסרב אני ל i the unclesodom swallowed the child of my brotheri stand before godwith his plan and i say i refuse to Eli N. (They/them) is a teacher based in Nevada. Their writing […]

Everything, Issue 121, Poetry

Before the Day of my Surgery by Lucy Rattner

I don’t remember the actual event but Ido remember it was aroundthe time I was feeling slightly suicidal andyou were watching House MDand laughing at whatever misadventurethose phony doctors were on and youlooked at me and diagnosed me withcavernous sinus thrombosis whichyou calmly explained as a blood clotat the base of my skull and I […]

Everything, Issue 121, Poetry

A list of things that might be in heaven by Erica Anderson-Senter

David Lee Roth is still alive. So, not him.Misshapen strawberries— ones like clumps of mud and small fists of children and the knot that erupted on my forehead when my baby sitter’s son hit me with a rock.Every dead bartender.Love letters I’ve written then torn into pieces.Sea foam that collects rogue kelp branches and shattered flecks […]

Everything, Issue 121, Opportunities for Artists & Writers

Opportunities for Artists and Writers | July 2026

Quillkeepers Press is currently accepting up to five poems or prose of up to 4000 words. Previous publications okay with permission from previous journal/press. Deadline: 7/31 Mānoa Journal is currently accepting up to five pieces of art, craft essays between 2000-2500 words, prose between 3000-5000 words, and up to 5 poems. Previously unpublished and original […]