ISSUE 8 | FEBRUARY 2024
Poetry
Territorial | DeMisty D. Bellinger
Let’s get territorial | mark... Continue reading→
Social Media | Matt Gulley
The vein is moving up,... Continue reading→
Why Do We Have Money? & Why Do People Die? | Sara R. Burnett
Because we built banks ... Continue reading→
Molly Brodak, #8 The Florida Horses Mini Center 5’6 | henry 7. reneau, jr.
Molly Brodak, #8 The Florida... Continue reading→
Los Alamos & Heaven Expires at Midnight | Esenia Banuelos
Manolo could be ascertained the... Continue reading→
Quick! | Chloe Yelena Miller
I’m asking her to live... Continue reading→
Toads & 4.22pm, December 5th | D A Angelo
The plane tree leaves are... Continue reading→
Smart & Rhapsodomancy | Lesley Wheeler
At twenty-five, adrift in the... Continue reading→
in the end we all become houses | Violeta Garza
after Margaret Atwood in the... Continue reading→
Tangerine Sonnet | Kenton K. Yee
Is that a porcupine or... Continue reading→
Featured Interview
decompose: A conversation with poet Séamus Fey
Hannah Grieco, editor-in-chief of the ASP Bulletin, interviews poet Séamus Fey about their new poetry collection decompose, out now from Not a Cult Media. Hannah Grieco: First: Tell us about decompose! Séamus Fey: decompose is for the cycle of growth. What you have to give up and let die, so that something new can... Continue reading→
Featured Story: "The Chase" from Already Gone: 40 Stories of Running Away
FEATURED STORY: The Chase | K.C. Mead-Brewer
Here it is, The Fool, stepping off his cliff. I love you, he says, I’m saying, and fuck. Thank god the road is there to save me from myself. It’s always known how to love me best, by being there, by running away from me. Every mile I gain on it, it’s got thousands more... Continue reading→
Nonfiction
I am King | Dayna Copeland
I eat the strawberry Pop-Tart in the driver’s seat of... Continue reading→
I Buy Earrings | Allison Field Bell
I buy earrings and think this will be the last... Continue reading→
In Spring Valley | DW McKinney
Spring Valley was made of the leftovers, the parts upturned... Continue reading→
Community Project | Kani Aniegboka
When people urinate together, it foams. Igbo Proverb I... Continue reading→
Fiction
Postmemory | Michael Don
Sometimes she would put her hands on his shoulders and... Continue reading→
Waves | Francesca Leader
My in-laws’ summer house is two thousand and eighty-two steps... Continue reading→
The Wolves of Paris | Ryan Deegan
To a girl searching for proof of her own uniqueness,... Continue reading→
Out of Nowhere | Vanessa Micale
It was near nightfall, teasing and tenuous between pitch black... Continue reading→
Slackjaw Sunrise
About the Artist, Dayna Copeland
Dayna Copeland is a romantic and edgy mixed-media artist, a published essayist and professional performer. A cancer mom and an elementary teacher, she is passionate about serving others in need, and representing voices who need defending.