by Valerie Laken | Apr 1, 2019 | Poetry
By Violet Mitchell Three days ago, I got an IUD. It’s my insurance plan in case I’m a bad parent. It’s the steel-walled bomb shelter for the aftermath of the 2016 election. It’s a shield grafted into the most sacred part of me, because I’m scared of what it can...
by Valerie Laken | Apr 1, 2019 | Nonfiction
By Malena Steelberg Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard’s philosophical discourse describes how he who lives purely for the purpose of aesthetics lives a pointless life devoid of meaning. Worshipping solely the cultivation and appearance of beauty is ultimately...
by Valerie Laken | Mar 1, 2019 | Poetry
By Sydni Doughtie but maybe God jotted us down on some tiny notebook he keeps in his pocket and one day he ripped the page by accident when shoving it back into his jeans after having a ground-breaking idea: “Plate tectonics,” he whispered to himself and as our...
by Valerie Laken | Mar 1, 2019 | Poetry
By IL there’s a marsh they call the basin it had a lot of grass blades a green darker than you’d expect more like a field of chard I was there once we all were & the water was high enough to wet our shins there’s a lot of water but you’re not allowed to...
by Valerie Laken | Mar 1, 2019 | Fiction
By Callie Zucker dear lehna, I’m the one who sits four seats down from you in lecture; couldn’t help but notice you today. we met eyes for a second until you broke the contact. come make dinner at my apartment tonight? xo, greta She came this morning and took...