Excerpts from The Found Journals of the Angel in Black (Part Four)
Trigger Warning: Violence, murder, manipulation, depressive themes, and drug use ENTRY XXI: I’ve returned from the most deadly trip: one...
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Prose
This is where you’ll find essays, short fiction, and other prose work.
“Stories are, in a sense, a scam.”
― George Saunders
Teddie Bernard
May 30, 2023
The End of Her Golden Age
The moon was too big the night Mei got the letter. She unlocked her mailbox and pulled out a stack of coupons, letters, notices. She...
P. Rasmussen
May 30, 2023
Snowbird/Sunbird
I was born during the time of year where all the love and warmth from Christmas fades away into winter. Where the light of the sun nearly...
Sam Donnell
May 30, 2023
Excerpt from Nightguards
The Devil clapped his hands together, the sound louder than a gunshot in the still night as a grin sprung up on his mouth, bathed in red...
Cieneca Cooke
May 30, 2023
My Grief, My Transgression
Sometimes grief looks like a vase¹ of flowers² from your well-intentioned friend when your grandfather finally dies. Don’t take finally...
Yun-Shen Li
May 30, 2023
My Dear Oneirologist
They met at a formal occasion in fall. It was half a week ago. On their way back to the city, they introduced themselves through those...
Kristen Lee
May 30, 2023
⋆｡°✩ Stars ⋆｡°✩
Dark cumulus clouds were scattered across the night sky. I could hardly see the twinkling stars, though I was sure they were peeking...
Jack Andrews
May 30, 2023
The Orbiter
Two minutes had passed even though it felt like a full night's sleep. Your motoric functions begin to come back online. Moving your hand...
Fae Myers
May 30, 2023
Stuck on a Ship
It was late in the nebulous night when The Herakles was stopped in the middle of its charted course through the near unending inky black...
Evan Efron
Jan 6, 2023
the spaceship dreams, too
Once the sun sets, the desert air is frigid. Chills ran up his back from the breeze. Dark green sand flew around his ankles and into his...
M. Lyne
Jan 6, 2023
Excerpts from The Found Journals of the Angel in Black (Part Three)
Trigger Warning: Violence, murder, body horror, manipulation, and sexual assault ENTRY XII: I’ve been found out. My shed has been burned...
Evan Efron
Jan 6, 2023
Plankton
Planktos [πλαγκτός] is an adjective with varying translations depending on where you look. Among them: “drifter”, “wandering”,“errant”....
Sid Gard
Jan 6, 2023
Reflections Found in Sea Glass
There is an intimacy to collecting the pieces of a life. Fragments, letters, journals — narratives split and divided. Truth in small...
Hannah Ji
Jan 6, 2023
Stain
“Do you miss it?” Casper asked. I turned my attention away from the TV to look at him. Casper continued to stare at the random time...
Elton Connell
Jan 6, 2023
Menacing Earthworks
“How is your body doing?” It took May a long time to answer. His feet, hands, tips of his bent ears and nose had been numb since he first...
Anonymous
Jan 6, 2023
Bishounen
Yesterday, I was talking to Ellie about how I wish I could be prettier. A vain thing to say, in a way, but I’ve always felt ugly. Even as...
Claire Bentley
Aug 10, 2022
Thought Process
The worst day was when the IUs were distributed through the underground market, but we didn’t know it yet. They were dropped on every...
Stevie Ceruolo
Aug 8, 2022
Five Star Rope: A Real Amazon Review and theEvents That Probably Inspired It
★★★★★ I AM VERY HAPPY WITH MY PURCHASE By PAT on July 31, 2016 Verified Purchase Color: Lime Glitter I AM VERY HAPPY WITH MY PURCHASE. I...
Cherish Harber
Aug 8, 2022
Sunday Evening Stitches
My feet are swinging up from my chair, out of boredom, and hitting the underbelly of the wooden table. Mama’s sitting down at the dinner...
Line Kuzniar
Aug 8, 2022
A Dreamt Performance
We stand. Two pillars. I am taller than you because my arms are over my head. If I dropped them, I would be just a few inches shorter. I...
L.K. Leslie
Aug 8, 2022
The Body
The body. The body is adorned in cloth and metal and rubber and referred to as one’s self. The body is to be destroyed. The body is to be...
Julia Hornedo
Aug 8, 2022
Eve
They told you falsehoods, that dust begot bone begot I, whose womb begot sin, begot flesh begot flesh begot flesh. But I was born from...
Line Kuzniar
Aug 8, 2022
Multiflora Rose
The First Visit: Bare-handed and bare-armed, the thorns tore at my skin as I tried to negotiate an uprooting. The shrub was not prepared...
Ivana Gatica
Aug 8, 2022
Diosito
Dios te salve María. Llena eres de gracia, el señor es contigo. Bendita eres entre todas las mujeres y bendito es el fruto de tu vientre,...
Line Kuzniar
Apr 9, 2022
Name
Name The world is nonbinary; take our sun for example. Nothing truly exists in twos, though humans wish for something so easy. Opposites...
L.K. Leslie
Apr 9, 2022
Excerpt from: Death of a Star
“Is the sun really a star?” Trevor didn’t turn his gaze from the sky. He just nodded. “Is the moon a star too?” This time, Trevor looked...
Amadou Connell
Apr 8, 2022
Her Headstone
Thank god they wanted a closed casket. Don’t wanna see what [she] did to [her] face. Her face that held the world in it— her relationship...
Isaac Hart
Jan 31, 2022
The Smoke Shop Around The Corner
I wanted Takis. The lemon-habanero kind that are all sweet, salty, and spicy. I really wanted them but I didn’t want to stand up; Tim’s...
M. Lyne
Jan 31, 2022
Excerpts from "The Found Journals of the Angel in Black"
Trigger Warning: Violence, murder, body horror, manipulation, sexual assault ENTRY I: Today she took me out on an adventure: one of those...
Lex Chilson
Jan 31, 2022
I Watch the Waves of Women Around Me
Our summers revolved around the beach. Specifically, Albion beach, on the Northside. My mom, a suncatcher woman looking for serenity in...
Adam Mac
Jan 31, 2022
What We Leave Behind
I’m so fucking late. The pavement sputters beneath my wheels as I brake. I toss my bike haphazardly against the rack, forgoing the lock...
Sydney Macias
Jan 31, 2022
Dream Dialogue
December 11, 2020 We are playing. A little girl is running ahead of me. I am running ahead of me. I remember hating that dress I’m in....
Anyse Doss
Dec 6, 2021
nerves as black lines
after Julie Mehretu, “A Love Supreme” dancing directionless doodles dirty the sidewalk of my chalky childhood masterpieces hazy hues of...
Stevie Ceruolo
Feb 10, 2021
Surveyor
Mila wonders why her position even exists anymore. Maybe it made some sense in more olden times, but now, just why? Shouldn’t we have...
Evan Efron
Feb 2, 2021
d/dx (k)=0
When finding the derivative, one is attempting to measure the sensitivity to change that a given function has as the independent variable...
Nic Holmberg
Feb 2, 2021
Apple Slices
part one I slowly eased onto the coolness of the laminate countertop, bracing myself for the feeling on my bare skin. Sitting there in...
Ry Suraski
Feb 2, 2021
The Epectasy of Gold
On an early morning, when your body is powered only by the adrenaline of waking into a dark Earth, a lot of things are glowing. The...
Steven Hou
Feb 2, 2021
Upending the Snow Globe Again
[cw: graphic violence] Today, November 1st: Anxieties about transitions loom heavily on our minds: brooding night skies are brought forth...
Stevie Ceruolo
Feb 2, 2021
Marina City
Evolution works differently in Marina City. Upon its completion in 1968, life inside its walls began to take on new forms, rewriting a...
Luci Lei
Feb 2, 2021
My Cousin
A few days ago I heard from my cousin in China after we haven’t connected for years. He asked, “How’s ‘AJ’ in the U.S.?” After I looked...
Alinda Mac
Feb 2, 2021
Sukiyaki
“Tell me again.” I sigh. It’s been three years since I started working the night shift, but my parents still make me recite the rules....
Mo David
Dec 27, 2020
The Last House Left
The old, slouching house was an island on the flooded town. Its wooden porch bumped right up against the still water, soaking silently in...
Sarina Swalm
Dec 27, 2020
Sharing A Bed
I feel them day after day. I hear their secrets, small conversations that dwindle in the dark room. Once, there had been a time before...
Ian Wenzel
Dec 27, 2020
Liquid Language
May 11th The unstoppable rain cut the trees like razors. The grass and foliage drowned, forcing the earth to crater. Diego felt purified...
Siyao Lu
Dec 27, 2020
Math Assignment
The math teacher talks about the probability questions in his class. “A” looks out the window, the game of poker unfolding on the grass...
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