Amal El-Mohtar

Max Gladstone

This is How You Lose the Time War

Jazelle H

“And then we’d be at each other’s throats even more.” Oh, petal. You say that like it’s a bad thing.

Cassidy Nolan

Emiley Jones

smile??

Syrina

Lily Hagen

Amalie Elisabeth

I am more sensitive to your footsteps, I think, than anyone alive.

Alli

A fugitive becomes a queen or a scientist or, worse, a poet. 

Charlie de Zeeuw

She wants there to be a God, so she can curse Her.

Jordan

Tell me something true, or tell me nothing at all. 

Kathi

Emily Klo

Fortunately, geniuses understand that young men are often fools.

blue

Instead, she stirs the spoon, empty, into the tea, and watches as the leaves unclump, swirl, spindle into letters. Each rotation is slow, and she marks paragraph breaks with small sips; every sip undoes the letters until she swirls them into meaning again.

We treat the past as trellis, coax our vineyard through and around, and harvest is not a word for swiftness; the future harvests us, stomps us into wine, pours us back into the root system in loving libation, and we grow stronger and more potent together. 

I have been birds and branches. I have been bees and wolves. I have been ether flooding the void between stars, tangling their breath into networks of song. I have been fish and plankton and humus, and all these have been me. 

But while I’ve been enmeshed in this wholeness—they are not the whole of me.

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