I love how reading Nao’s work means never knowing where you’re going to end up.
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There are ghosts in the room. Every room.
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Each page of Kissing buzzes with potential energy only activated through unapologetic refusal to comply with creative, epistemic, and social norms.
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Big Bang, by Dhwanee Goyal (Copy)
in Online Issue
the immortals // madness, madness
come, love; say that you’ve never felt
the remnants of a rifle ripping through
your heart—your chest fragments
scattering to the ground like spare change.
Barrelhousing with Assistant Fiction Editor Sam Ashworth
There are basically two easy ways to light me up with a short story: A) make it about something that fascinates you, like egyptology or how microwaves work or competitive baton-twirling, and then B) escalate the hell out of it.
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