Believe the Graves, by Rasha Abdulhadi
Winner (tie), 2023 Dwarf Stars Award Across my father’s death there is a curtainpast which I can’t write, my own […]
Winner (tie), 2023 Dwarf Stars Award Across my father’s death there is a curtainpast which I can’t write, my own […]
(prelude 3.1) He wasn’t socruelas to namethe dog. (first day 1.1) I live in the same house I grew up
When you dieregret becomes permanentso imagine my surprise when Isaw the stallions thererunning as if forever were made of switchgrassand cloveras
Fluid Dynamics What did you get sprayed with tonight? My partner has taken to asking me this after a particularly
You wash ashore, cheeks sun-bleached,half-obscured by a burst of barnacles as brine rushes in the gash of your neck, and out. Unbodiedmust feel like living anew. If I pry the shells open, is there anythingbeneath the undulations on your eye? But there is nothingto worry about; ugliness is not a fault—to exist, undesired, unbothered. Within, let go of your needto squelch through folds among folds for the algae bloom.How many nights have you longed for a body of land never claimed, oncethe wasting flesh of the old had drowned? Was it ever a dream that youwould be a muse,sprawled over a beach towel; a beloved,bikini untied in the heat of summer; an image,couched between horizon and shore.You would have been unharbored elsewhere. Of course, let us be honest, you are regurgitatedby the ocean herself, a skull of what remainsof a siren’s call. Here you are, and here I am, lured by how appalling you are. Rayji de Guia is a fictionist, poet, and illustrator. Her work can be found in Asian Cha, harana
WE, with base of Ornithischia, machine-molded and encasing intelligence, run to keep the beloved ones alive WE: bird-hipped, yes, bird-fierce,
Let X be a gash in the fabricof time that splits to showthings sixty-six million yearspast. Let Y be the