December 28, 2020 | Nonfiction
Hockenheimring
Sam Farahmand
On Sunday morning, at eight central in middle Tennessee, I watch the Grand Prix. This season is the 70th anniversary of the FIA Formula One World Championship, which feels like enough of a reason to
December 25, 2020 | Fiction
Meet 2020’s Most Nonessential Santas
Tyler Barton and Erin Dorney
This is the Santa crushing it on Etsy.
This is the Santa denied unemployment.
This is the Santa whose Zoom background brought his therapist to tears.
This Santa doesn’t give a shit—he’s a
December 24, 2020 | Fiction
This Christmas, We Will Celebrate Around a Cube
Rebecca van Laer
First, I visited my father’s house. After I returned home, my mother asked me to bring her there in the dark of night. We got on the highway, drove north, then took the second exit, but that was all I
December 24, 2020 | Poetry
My Daughter Has Never Heard of Home Alone or All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth
Adam Hughes
She lives with her mom
two states away
and I wish this was all
I've failed to teach her.
Acting
Danny Lang-Perez
I’m now constructing a mental pool for how long these two can keep up the corporate veneer before they go insane or at least pop Gene in the teeth or at least say Okay you’re done no more pineapple and then whisk away the tray of pineapple Mom and I have not stopped noshing and ogling and noshing...
On Transatlantic Shame
I.S. Jones
1955
Nothing is earned unless something is lost. You lost your father in a car accident, as mommy explained. You are less than a year old and don’t have language for anything, much less grief. The
The Van Man
Elizabeth Morgan
When Michael left for the West, I experienced what in Portuguese is known as saudade, an intense nostalgia for a person.
Four Poems
shy watson
sour
i wanted
in the way
that want follows
bedraggled
a half moon
of bites
it starts
like this
slowly
rara saw
FIRE FIRE
in my eyes
hard to describe
to you who
no longer
Grip
Connor Goodwin
The first time I went rock climbing, I lasted 30 minutes.
On Shaving My Legs for the First Time
Nandini Maharaj
On Shaving my Legs for the First Time
the offending hairs that sprout from dark skin
like unwelcome ants that toil through the night
hairs that signal virility on my father’s chin
draw taunts
An Immigrant Love Letter
Kimberly Nguyen
an immigrant love letter
this is a love letter
to jasmine rice and soy sauce in the ethnic aisle to the crisp
melting of duck skin in my mouth you taste the
Bodrum
C. R. Resetarits
I smile now, waiting, always waiting, for you to reappear and remember me ...
Rumours
Sean Gill
My wife and I are in pretty deep with the Mac. You can tell because we call them "the Mac."
I Write Panic
Sydney Vogl
I WRITE PANIC
into the locked kitchen
cabinet, china chipped
& sticky. i write
myself into a bottle
of vodka, sloshing
in waves of bitter
padded tongue.
i write the morning
green &
Most Accurate, Most Deadly
Hannah Seidlitz
I once let the person I loved prick my ribcage with a needle a thousand times so I wouldn’t forget. A collection of dots arcing messily into two black brackets.
Does Kanye West Need God or Does God Need Kanye?: Kanye’s Holy Ghost Tent Revival Sunday Service (On a Friday)
Victor Glass
immediately I thought, “Oh shit! They got Kanye!”
Three Poems
Jack Buck
words to describe love
saw a pretty plant through a store window
picked out a different one instead
that
Neon; Regret: Lucio Fontana’s “Walking the Space”
Amanda Goldblatt
I am writing you now from a city we scored with nomadic walking fourteen months ago. During that trip I had been ill.
Three Poems
Rosa Crepax
One night of nothing
When the languorous motion of bats and owls overthrows the scorching August air
making a party only takes three
One night of nothing
heavy on an empty