Of Shells by Stacey Tran

As scale of balance. As object hollowed, emptied of its mass. As framework, mere externality without substance; as in the outer part. Received unto windows as indecent allusion; as glass in its two halves. As if edifice or fabric whose interior, removed is now merely an arc. As skeletal or concessive to such regression. Remains of a ship once carved and filled. As in building…

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Engineers are close to trapping a rainbow. How do you trap light? by Neesa Sonoquie

All of these hours and the ice sheets melting into soup, the world now one-third plastic, beach sand like Beta and Atari, phantom erections, phantom voices, a 2000 year-old ghost forest uncovered by rough seas. There is an unusual swarm of tsunamis fucking the seafloor stirring violet light  into the atmosphere, and scientists are working on a new banana. Do we really need another banana?…

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The Other Part of Time by Lydia Ship

My family made a bigger family to seek out the purest sighting. We tried to grow our family to as many members as possible, and we met in each other’s houses every night. We built a building and made maps. We posted the maps everywhere on the walls of the building. By then many families were our families, and we had to give them instructions…

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