Spring 2020
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Jonathan Van De Loo Extravaganza! Antic fizz and bold theatrical exaggeration! Proud women, lovely boys, beautiful drag queens– Few melodramas with such tragic underpinnings have ever made me feel so intensely happy! Grand movie stars, gorgeous frocks, wild wallpaper; a spectacular synthesis Of lickable lollipop colors. His world is used to improvising.… Read More VI
,Like This
Jonathan Van De Loo I do not recall the day my soul left my body. It floats above me, perched in the upper corner of every room with the glamour and stylized eye of a cinematographer. Hm. I miss the days when my eyes were open. Mornings like this I wish Matt Damon were still… Read More ,Like This
Boyfriend Jersey
Jonathan Van De Loo It will all take place in an instant of patience, Of bliss acquiesced. Bricks of time stack up beneath meAs my drowsy eyes are caught by the sharp bright phone beside my pillow. I am lifted up to a seat on a plush leather couch.Cushions are deep. To sit and recline… Read More Boyfriend Jersey
Just Begun
Honey Butter Honey Butter is a 6-piece soul-pop band based in Evanston. Inspired by the music of Stevie Wonder, D’Angelo, and Bruno Mars, the band writes and arranges all of their material. Honey Butter features vocalist Alexa Moster, vocalist/saxophonist Austin Klewan, guitarist Jacob Galdes, drummer Oliver Holden-Moses, trumpeter/keyboardist Sam Wolsk, and bassist George Estey.Facebook |… Read More Just Begun
Things we touched
Elizabeth Vogt New York in high July, one boiling night,We shimmy through the crowds of sweat and smoke.The ground will cook our rubber sandal-treadsSo we keep moving, past the neon words,Halal trucks, and the stairway to the tracks.It’s ten and we are twenty and content(And she’s the kind of friend that makes you drunkWithout a… Read More Things we touched
Sacrifice Fly
Alex Barnett “I’m gonna pull the ol’ hidden ball trick,” Marco whispers into my ear. “Top of the 5th, ball’s comin’ my way. Slow roller right into my mitt, just you wait.” He whacks me with his mitt. “And you won’t believe what I’ve been keepsin’ in my here pocket.” Marco steps… Read More Sacrifice Fly
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Sarah Loper
People like to say that perfection is a concept,
BUT I KNOW IT’S REAL. Mariama Pouye I know what it is to sit on damp earth and feel the sun seep into your skin as wind softly plucks your arm hairs like guitar strings. I know the weight of a head on your shoulder and the slight ache you get from cradling it. These… Read More People like to say that perfection is a concept,
Margaret Atwood Says You Are Your Own Voyeur, I Ask Does Knowing That Help?
Mariama Pouye a twelve year old girl reads books filled with twelve year old girlswho do not notice themselves.sitting alone in a warm cafe,she feels longing for the first time. a fifteen year old girl walks to her car at nightfearing the tracking gaze of a passing man,wondering if she’d fear its absence even more.… Read More Margaret Atwood Says You Are Your Own Voyeur, I Ask Does Knowing That Help?
Pretty
Tyler Holmes With lashes like a cartoon doe,And cheeks plump and rosy from the cold,I lift my little head (that’s quite heavy, for me)And say to another four year-old, who has just fallen downAnd scraped her knee:You’re too pretty to cry. I’m seated cross-legged on your floor.I watch you dust your cheeks in… Read More Pretty
