Vol. VI: “Hunger” confronts the question of what is essential and explores the core idea of need driven by a deep and unrelenting desire. An ache to satiate or itch to scratch — something that we often give ourselves to. These works show how hunger often defines our narratives, cropping up between the lines of stories, poems, artwork, and beyond. Perhaps all of us are craving some form of the same necessity. In the same way we found connection to these works, we hope this issue touches some hungry spot in you, too.
Vol. VI: “Hunger”
Masthead
Letter from the Editors
Fiction
Keeper by K-Ming Chang*†
The Difference Between a Goose and a Swan by Chris Clements
The Case of Middle Age by Jennifer A. Howard
April Is a Fruitful Month by Andy Marlowe*
Símone by Jory Pomeranz†
The Play Place by Eugene Schacht
Nonfiction
to the brown nippled girls and the daughters of immigrant fathers by Sofía Aguilar※†
Savoring by Victoria Buitron*†
Beware of the Boys by Natalie Mislang Mann
Poetry
when Black people say, ‘Imma pray for you,’ that is the prayer by Ashia Ajani†
worthy to be sung by Levi Bentley*‡
Longing by Lawrence Bridges*
A 6 Month Follow Up Visit Opens My Mouth in Anguish by Rocio Franco†
Lone Tick Star by David Higdon
exhibición: polilla en pandemia by Viva Padilla†
Dominos by Audrey Sioeng※
Sweet Tooth by Claire Van Winkle*
Dear Family In America, by Nick Zelle†‡
Stage & Screen
Violins by Jonathan Kravetz
Making Friends Remotely by Dave Osmundsen
Leo and Friends by Amalia Oliva Rojas※※
Experimental Narratives
TABSS: Teacher Assessment of Burnout and Survival Skills by Mary-Pat Buss
My Name Is Sami by Daniela Lucato
Counting the Stains on Our Button-Down Long-Sleeve Shirt by Cole Pragides
Visual Art & Comics
The Hungry by Emily Altman†
Selected Comics by Belle (Bom) Kim
Disintegral by Emily Rankin†
Selected Artwork by Alli Smith
The Peripheries of Love by Zoe Walsh†
Featuring
An Interview with Natashia Deón