Winter Issue 2026
Leith Water Walks
Leith Water Walks By Lucinda Madsen When the silhouettes of scissors twist above, I swear I hear it. “You’re home!” cry the welcome swallows– but it’s not my home, and they don’t really cry, they swoop low, swallowing bugs up as they cut open the sky. Whatever scraps I find, I paste together. I make… Read More Leith Water Walks
visiting hours
visiting hours By Haley Wong Haley Wong is a writer from the Chicago suburbs fascinated by the intersection of dreams, memory, and mourning. She is a freshman studying English. She loves a good movie night, hand-me-down sweaters, and watching the flowers bloom.
Film Noir in Cat City
Film Noir in Cat City
RUN
RUN Alexandra Kania is a first-year student from Chicago studying Secondary Teaching in the History concentration. She is a lover of art, music, and baking chocolate chip cookies.
meditations
Meditations
Girls
Girls By Alexandra Kania Alexandra Kania is a first-year student from Chicago studying Secondary Teaching in the History concentration. She is a lover of art, music, and baking chocolate chip cookies.
2:30am. Weekly on Saturday
2:30am. Weekly on Saturday By Sahil Desai The train is desolate, like a shopping mall in March. The bright white lighting perfectly highlights the yellow tone that all the seats have acquired over the years of wear and tear. I sit quietly in my secluded corner, mindlessly scrolling through my Twitter feed, numb to any… Read More 2:30am. Weekly on Saturday
Edge of Reality
Edge of Reality Joss Broward is a photographer and a junior studying journalism, political science, and marketing at Northwestern University. His images often explore themes of solitude, movement, and identity. His work has been published in outlets including Smithsonian Magazine and Zone Magazine.
Clear Black Nights
Clear Black Nights By Elijah Elvin May this night be black & clear as ancestral blood rumbling in our veins, cocoa-creamed comfort from crémas, dogged strength of empty-souled street dwellers, a fisherman’s calloused hands, grilled griot hotly eager to fall off the bone, iridium-rich plates our home rests on, joumou that has a rebirth in… Read More Clear Black Nights
Table of Contents
Snow Bones Edge of Reality Clear Black Nights 2:30 AM. Weekly on Saturday Girls The Jockey meditations RUN Film Noir in Cat City visiting hours Leith Water Walks cleanse Waters Swelled on the Earth the end of not-quite-love in the black car you share with your brother Confetti Takarabune (Fish Market) Last Day of Class… Read More Table of Contents
