ISSUE № 

03

a literary journal in multiple time zones

Mar. 2024

ISSUE № 

03

a literary journal in multiple time zones

Mar. 2024

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Black Sun, Incinerate Me

As Roman and I stroll through Central Park on the way to my book launch, the Soviet poet Marina Tsvetayeva gets up from a bench and walks right by us. She sports her signature short hair and severe bangs, as well as her dark eyes, prominent nose, and beguiling air of doom. I am not completely mad, yet—I know it’s not really her. She’s been dead for over seventy years, but I’ve been thinking...

Help Me, You’re Bleeding

I’m in a support group for monsters, loosely defined. Our aims swing wildly between reform and self-acceptance depending on whose turn it is to lead the meeting and what phase of our cycles we’re in—remorse, defiance, fixation, bloodlust etc. Today, it’s my turn to share: “My name is Joe and I’ve been a vampire for 74 years,” I begin. “Twice as long as I was human.”  You’re supposed to introduce yourself in relation to your humanity...

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