Vol. VIII: “Lines” explores connection. Between parents and children, artists and fans, friends and lovers, robots and humans. To one’s city and across borders. Via humor and through grief. The lines within this issue are both physical and metaphorical, and throughout—like on our cover specially designed by Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin—illustrate the moments when art intersects reality, when we scrawl over the way the world appears and redesign what is into what could be.
Vol. VIII: “Lines”
Masthead
Letter from the Editors
Fiction
Theseus by Ishan Dylan‡
Sidewalks by Sasha Hom*
Lift and Carry by Leslie Maslow*
In the Morning, I Hear Singing… by Lio Min
The Wobble by Max Tachis†‡
Flash Fiction
Our Mothers by L Mari Harris‡
Lord of the Fireflies by LaVie Saad※‡
Nonfiction
Perfect Dark by Lisa Eve Cheby†
first love by Vanessa Flandorp Tlachi※※
Glass by Keegan Lawler*
The Recruit by Angela Miyuki Mackintosh†
Poetry
The Movies, 2021 by Paige Ackerson-Kiely†
Praise Song for the Cow Loose on Route 16 Going the Right Way by James King*
September by Renée Lepreau*‡
These Tenuous Things by Cassie McDaniel†‡
SYNERGY, a golden shovel by tangie mitchell†
This Is Not Our Star by Margaret Saigh†
First Generation by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha*‡
Stage & Screen
A Park for Children to Pretend In by Vincent Terrell Durham
The Needy by Zac Thompson
Experimental Narratives
I Pencil Grieving You Into My Planner by Bree Bailey†
At Twelve Years Old, I Draft a New Custody Agreement by Ariel M. Goldenthal†
Very-Smart™ Lyrics: ‘Crazy Paving’ by Rutherford Bee Haze by Zac Picker†
Visual Art & Comics
Along L.A.: A Curated Collection of Visual Art by Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin†
Selected Comics by Frega DiPerri
Habits and/or Vices by Kristen Huizar†
Poetry Comics by David Lasky†
Selected Photographs by Edwin Perez Osuna
Deconstructing the Deconstructed by Mirka Walter
Film
Obit by Geetha Reddy & Brian Tolle
Featuring
An Interview with Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin