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A Nigerian Mother’s Guide to Dewinging an Angel
He swears that he can feel them sometimes, phantom appendages on his back twitching and thrumming with unlived life. “I swear mummy. I swear.”
Baby Girl (1983-1983)
“People are observing when they first get somewhere,” Sam said. “Or when they’re about to leave.”
Grievance Line
Grievance 10 is also not able to be analyzed. It seems you have submitted a recollection of a dream in which you and Susan are adults, old, with sagging breasts, inside a dressing room.
Imagine What’s Missing: An Interview with M Lin
Inevitably the real self does come out. Maybe we put parts of ourselves that we actually don’t manifest in reality into fiction—it’s such an unconscious process.
Knocking on Heaven’s Door with Darcey Steinke
Steinke artfully details how we lose our vitality, our stamina and our abilities, bit by bit, organ by joint. After the book’s tour through disease and misfortune, I’d come to feel lucky for my health.
Papers, please
I have grown out of the sock drawer. a vagrant unfit holed structure that still somehow keeps you warm.
The winners of the 2026 Breakout Prize are Nico Amador in poetry, selected by Cynthia Cruz, and Imogen Osborne in prose, selected by Alexandra Kleeman.