We sent a blast into our social universe asking for the joker to reveal themselves and were met with intrigue but no answers. Superstition says one cannot buy one’s own tarot deck. It must be passed down or bestowed.
FICTION | NONFICTION | POETRY |
TRANSLATION
SUBMIT STORE DONATE OPPORTUNITIES
OUR LATEST ISSUE
INTERVIEWS WRITERS WE PUBLISH
All in Non-Fiction
We sent a blast into our social universe asking for the joker to reveal themselves and were met with intrigue but no answers. Superstition says one cannot buy one’s own tarot deck. It must be passed down or bestowed.
“Two girls among the green, between trees. Hands on hips, heads tipped back, eyes searching sky. Six years before Taylor Swift announced her eighth studio album by posting a photo of herself standing in a forest, she posted another photo of a forest holding two women, which she has since deleted from her grid. Don’t stress, it’s not gone. It’s just entered the next stage in the celebrity Instagram life cycle, which means that it’s truly ours now, property of the stans with the prescience to preserve.”
“[The Daniels] work is vital because they each add a necessary extension to what it means to be human. And when grouped together, The Daniels offer a clear retort to that well-intentioned if ill-informed statement: ‘A lot of people of color don’t know their family history.’ Ultimately, people of color do know their families, especially if we continue to find and share the writers who make us come alive.”
“Writing really resists optimization and that’s partly why I love it. It makes me reevaluate how I conceive of ‘time well spent.’”
“I have known these compelling yet repellent men. Haven’t you?”
“yesterday was funny because you were in a terrible mood but everything was beautiful.”
“Writing poetry has trained my eye and ear to look and listen to my day with deep attention.”
“Each translation has its own personality- and should have.”
“I needed to know that others had endured what my family was going through, regardless of the outcome.”
“One thing I like about the Aliens series is the fact of its many, many, pregnant men.”
“Can you forgive me?”
“Until these collections, I didn’t believe you could write short pieces so clearly inspired by Chicano life.”
“At its core, the madness memoir is an effort to impose a literary structure on an inherently disorganized condition.”
“To sew a jacket, one must first imagine it fragmented.”
"…I’m just sort of putting my ear against the thing and trying to discern its heartbeat…”
“When you start out as a writer, you really never know what’s going to happen. Will anyone ever read your work?”
“You can tell a lot about a person by their Starbucks order.”
