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I Know Why I Suck. by John C. Krieg

I ’M an ASPIRING WRITER who Doesn’t know a noun from a pronoun A verb from an adverb And, aren’t adjectives good for everything? Every time I get stuck on writing a complete sentence I just throw in a semicolon, because Nobody else knows what the hell they’re for either And they’re so embarrassed that they just let me slide
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A Love Letter to Andre Lancaster from Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko

Under the artificial but highly industrialized canopy that was the D-train running directly over our heads, we stood outside for our first heart-to-heart conversation. It was summer in New York City, distinct in humidity and activity from summers anywhere else in the world, and the workshop process for your Black queer theater group with its five playwrights under fellowship had begun. Monumental was the fact that we were Black writers commissioned for actual pay, read: real money; miraculous describes the dream realized and its impact on our creative lives well into our queer futures; “divinely powerful” is the phrase that comes to mind whenever I think of you, a young gay Black man whose ministry meant creating theater for queer Black playwrights when it wasn’t a thing, wasn’t trendy or an identity-marker to distinguish oneself at parties among the liberal elite or leftist intelligentsia who tend to populate if not dominate theater circles within America’s artistic landscape.

All You Can Eat Buffet of Poisoned Fish Eggs. by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook
AND. . . Sideshow. by
Juliet Cook


All You Can Eat Buffet of Poisoned Fish Eggs (Cook—hastain).
A fingernail stuck inside
each dumpling is a sign
of betrayal.

better safe than sorry. by Cindy Lynn Brown, followed by Souvenir, by the same


How many wasps can I light
in one go with a flamethrower?
will their wings burn first
their bodies falling
like New Year’s fireworks to the ground
or will the swarm disappear
in one mighty swoosh

A Word Portrait of Gertrude Stein in the Style of Gertrude Stein’s Word Portraits by Randal Eldon Greene

She was one who was a writing one. She was one who was a thinking one. She is known as a writing one. She was one who was thinking of writing. She was writing. She was one thinking when she was writing. She was a writer.

A Christmas song located somewhere in South India. by Ajay Kumar


Undescended- I can see stars, how obviously there          there.
                                                                                         there

the monster. by Stephen House

when i was forty i lived in new york for two months
after a funded playwright residency at banff in canada
that i’d received through the australian arts department.

Spinoza, My Uber Driver. by Sam Spurlock


Burn your memories.
Stand on the threshold as you do it.
Inhale.
Hold your breath until you become breathless.