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Five Poems by Simon Perchik

Untitled It was a brook, had names though these bottom stones are still draining, passing you by before letting go the silence that stays after each…


6 to 6: Marshmallows on Everything

Christmas Day: what a pitchfork of horseshit. I have that feeling that I blew it again, that there is something wrong. My boss June threw me the…


“Hungarian Wizardries: Musings” and “Pearls-Dreams”

Hungarian Wizardries: Musings Something of Hungary would give thanks to Austria for the historic-ontological suitableness, a weird-like spirit. I was…


Pretty as a Picture

I didn't actually like my stepsister at all when I first met her. I suppose I was angry at Mum for heading out for cigarettes when I was nine and…


Joan Claire

Firstborn babe, sleeping peacefully in a lavender room, Soft purple curtains flutter out over light purple walls, Her grandmother’s very image, her…


Incelsploitation: A Review of Cuck

Last month, Apple TV debuted a new miniseries based on the life of Emily Dickinson, rewriting history to depict her as a grrl-power feminist who goes…


The Return

My husband rushed to the kitchen one evening. His face looked strangely excited as he said, “Tom Linden has come back.” I almost dropped the dish I…


The Germ

The woman hurried through the walkway towards the main gate, an infant clutched in her arms. From the first moment I spotted her, my suspicions were…


“Stand-In,” “Magic,” “Four Princes I’ve Loved: An Ode,” and “Momentum Trials”

Stand-In This bus stop has to stand in For a holy place, in the suburbs--- It covers, shelters like a canopy Its glass covered with advertising…


Sympathy for the Devil: A Review of Joker

In the summer of 2006, I was dropped off in Plattsburgh, New York, a small town about an hour south of Montreal, for my college freshman orientation.…