Honorable mentions

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volume VII, issue i

“Stuck at home scrolling through his social media amidst the backdrop of a global pandemic, 21-year-old Aeham Fatheen began to notice a bizarre trend: Friends - both from college and from back home in the Maldives - were buying betta fish…”

“gabe said he wrote a poem about the year of the rat

that my pet rats were the final straw for him after months of hearing about rats

apparently i made it into the poem…”

“We sleep upon cots. Sneakers squeak on the
gymnasium floor, and fathers groan while mothers scream…”

“Spill honey, suck, sup honey,
Apple-blossom honey-bee,
Molt shell, suckle honey…”

“We were in a playground when we took the acid. Not one I was familiar with. That was my first mistake. Anyone who knows anything about psychedelic drugs will tell you that it’s best to be in a place you know. Where you feel safe. That same rule applies to the people you’re with…”

“She lived alone in a neighborhood with many. In a little house with white siding, the simple, slant-roof starter kind that kindergarteners draw with crayons - it had a quaint suburban symmetry. And the picket fences pressed right up against her flower boxes in the front, right up against her neighbors on each side, right up against her and her tiny garden…”