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Issue No. 33: Wonder

Fall / Winter 2024

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Former Christian-rock bandmates in need of cash film themselves having sex in Michael Qualiano’s “Ungodly Faces.” A queer fanbase obsesses over an imagined same-sex relationship between two pop stars in Emmeline Clein’s “Internet Angels.”

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Features
Nihao in Afrotopia
Ruella Che
Essay, Nonfiction, Issue 33
Nihao in Afrotopia
Ruella Che
Essay, Nonfiction, Issue 33

Watching Chinese immigrants shouting curt orders to Black workers in their newly learned English was often like observing a failed game of telephone, as the workers’ faces bore quiet offense.

Ruella Che
Essay, Nonfiction, Issue 33
“Boomerang” & “pinkmania”
Bri Stokes
Poetry, Issue 33
“Boomerang” & “pinkmania”
Bri Stokes
Poetry, Issue 33

I once prayed in the woods
inside a temple of

branches, and I felt the wind
rise and cease with

the waltz of my lungs,
and I knew She was alive;

Bri Stokes
Poetry, Issue 33
“At Stop & Shop” & “24 juillet”
Latif Askia Ba
Poetry, Issue 33
“At Stop & Shop” & “24 juillet”
Latif Askia Ba
Poetry, Issue 33

My queering consonance. Rendered
by your fingers.

You type me in slowly.
Each digit. A psalm.

Latif Askia Ba
Poetry, Issue 33
Internet Angels
Emmeline Clein
Essay, Nonfiction, Issue 33
Internet Angels
Emmeline Clein
Essay, Nonfiction, Issue 33

“Two girls among the green, between trees. Hands on hips, heads tipped back, eyes searching sky. Six years before Taylor Swift announced her eighth studio album by posting a photo of herself standing in a forest, she posted another photo of a forest holding two women, which she has since deleted from her grid. Don’t stress, it’s not gone. It’s just entered the next stage in the celebrity Instagram life cycle, which means that it’s truly ours now, property of the stans with the prescience to preserve.”

Emmeline Clein
Essay, Nonfiction, Issue 33
Birthday Landscape With Deer and Scavengers
Ceridwen Hall
Poetry, Issue 33
Birthday Landscape With Deer and Scavengers
Ceridwen Hall
Poetry, Issue 33

The deer is dead, road-crumpled, and surrounded by vultures—

an elegant coven of seven, necks bowed, dark wings shifting

like the skirts of gossiping widows. The vultures ignore

Ceridwen Hall
Poetry, Issue 33
“A dialogue with death” & “Cortege”
Sandra Anfang
Issue 33, Poetry
“A dialogue with death” & “Cortege”
Sandra Anfang
Issue 33, Poetry

This day should be a carnival
for a man who oozed mischief.
I might have worn my long red skirt
waited for him to throw off the lid
look death in the eye and
mouth his usual refrain:
let’s get this show on the road.

Sandra Anfang
Issue 33, Poetry
“The Kingdom Comes Like a Joke” & “Manifesto”
Alyssa Stadtlander
Poetry, Issue 33
“The Kingdom Comes Like a Joke” & “Manifesto”
Alyssa Stadtlander
Poetry, Issue 33

“the kingdom comes like a joke / told by a child, littered with /
what do you get and what happens now / and how many how many how many / like a game / of lost and found”

Alyssa Stadtlander
Poetry, Issue 33
“nectarine season” & “brain help / love, belly”
Kristin Lueke
Poetry, Issue 33
“nectarine season” & “brain help / love, belly”
Kristin Lueke
Poetry, Issue 33

“you ask me to be patient. i paint an old bookshelf

& remember my posture, the way blossoms become

one last thing.”

Kristin Lueke
Poetry, Issue 33

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