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Scholar's Mate
When he was small, a Huey strafed
the walls of his house. Abuela’s options
were either pray God would skew the hail
Good Company for a Polyglot: On Pola Oloixarac’s “Dark Constellations”
Certain writers assault you with their intelligence, not as, or only as, a performance, but rather out of necessity: they simply cannot stop thinking. Humor has long been the balm of metacognition, laughter a scaffolding over the abyss.
Deportable Alien, Excerpted from “The Body Papers”
To celebrate having passed the boards for foreign medical graduates, my father bought a new Chevy Caprice station wagon, turtle green with matching interior. The flatbed in the back folded into a bench seat that faced the rear.
In Defiance of Categorical Distinction: On The Best Small Fictions 2019 Anthology
Categorization is tyranny, even if it is useful to customers who might care to know what they are buying without having to think too much about it.
So Playful, After All: On Rivka Galchen’s “Rat Rule 79”
Rivka Galchen has never published the same kind of book.
◉ Bulletin Board
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.