Warrior by a Tomb
Written by Michael Wu, Illustrated by Lai Ling Berthoud.
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Other Things That Rot
Written by Lauren Hobbs, Illustrated by Lucienne Saisselin
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I Want You To Rot
Written by Orane Bissada,
Illustrated by Jocelyn Arnold.
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Rotten Right to the Core
Written by Dishari Bose, Illustrated by Elana Munasinghe.
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It's Not Yet Time to Rot
Written by Ruth Raffle, Illustrated by Yury Aleksanyan
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Tick Tock Rot O'Clock
Written by Shenice Friday, Illustrated by Yury Aleksanyan.
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Running from the frying pan into the fire
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Illustrated by Yury Aleksanyan
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You Bruise Like a Plum
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Illustrated by Elana Munasinghe
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The Place No One Finds
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A Table for Two
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Illustration by Beth Xia
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Fool's gold
Writing by Isabela Caramico and illustration by Lucienne Saisselin. I believe if I didn’t enjoy soup so much, I would have accomplished...
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In extremity, It asked a Crumb
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Beardsu
Writing by Göksu Gündüzalp, artwork by Lou Vachez. water, leave yourself to me im crying near a river you’re crawling on me: you are...
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Merlin
Writing by Michael Wu, illustration by Yury Aleksanyan. The play is done A long day now I watch There is rain Drop, they too read lines...
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Teriyaki
Writing by Michael Wu, artwork by Elana Munasinghe. CAPTION: [That’s me in the picture. Not the one in the hat, that's Arthur. Look. The...
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Forgive Me, Mother, For I Have Sinned
Writing by Vivienne Gorgoova, artwork by Berenika Murray My mum would always say we were being punished. Every minor inconvenience our...
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Rosie smoked vogues
Writing by Caitlin Tambini, artwork by Lou Vachez. Rosie smoked Vogues. Nostalgic from a Parisian holiday aged 16, she bought a packet...
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After Catholic guilt
Writing by Erin Cullinan, artwork by Alana Kenneth. The remorse after imagining a stranger naked. The pit in your stomach after telling a...
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Wolf in Brandy Melville
Writing by Lizzie Armitage, artwork by Seth Statham. Black eyes glint at me from the jewellery box, set in gilded emblems of blasphemy...
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Bakemono 時代
Writing by Michael Wu, illustration by Lucienne Saisselin. 1 Look at Bill. Bill was not really his name; he’s my cousin. Bill got drunk...
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Sweet
Writing by Jessie Irvin Rose. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. 0. She Two pigeons outside my window plunge their beaks into each other’s...
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On Collage
Writing by Scarlett Smyth. Artwork by Jocelyn Arnold. Marguerite and I both cried cutting the chestnut trees. I hid behind a middling...
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Sixth Meditation
Writing by Kuba Olszak. Artwork by James Wake. Perhaps I can only love in a Cartesian way. I can either love the soul and the soul that...
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Oct 30, 20231 min read
The Body: Is it mine? Exploring Violence, Ownership, and Gender Dysphoria
Writing by Heidi Hafner. Artwork by Seth Statham. I like that they asked me about the body, Not my body. Because it’s not mine, It never...
Rattlecap Writers
Feb 25, 20236 min read
The Pool
Writing by Jessie Irvin Rose. Illustration Berenika Murray. She lies in the heat and watches him work, watches him sway the net through...
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Feb 25, 20234 min read
A Quick Trip to the Grocery Shop
Writing Isabela Caramico. Artwork by Rosa Rucola (soon to be found via @rucolasexternalbrain) A quick trip to the grocery shop. All I...
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Catharsis as Growth
Writing by Emily Tennant. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. Is catharsis necessarily a loud act? An uncontrollable, unexpected moment of...
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It Really Starts After the Funeral
Writing by Lola Weisselberg. Artwork by Leonie Hubert. She’s sitting by the door again. She’s always touching something, I’ve noticed;...
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Nosebleed
Writing Heather Sweeney. Artwork by Berenika Murray. When I pull it from the back of my throat It leaves a metallic savoury note Through...
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‘Be Glad and Rejoice with all your Heart’: Christian Catharsis as a Queer Woman
Writing by anonymous. Artwork by Cilla Sullivan. Christian worship is steeped in catharsis, acted out in rituals of purification and...
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Feb 25, 20234 min read
On Asexuality
Writing by Sam Stevens. Artwork by Kate Granholm. I don’t eat meat. This has not always been easy for my peers to swallow. On school...
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Sandman
Writing by Michael Wu. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan and Kate Granholm. The Sphinx White, death does finding with sand inks a tread...
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Beauty and the Beast through an aroace lens
Writing by Sue O'Hara. Artwork by Kate Granholm (@katesartthings on instagram) I never had an obsession with Disney princesses as a...
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Birth
Writing by Molly Reed. Artwork by Kate Granholm (@katesartthings on Instagram) It was springtime When I gave birth to the darkness....
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Burn
Writing by Michael Wu. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. Game is candles’ ivory floor And perturbed pains in my sick bed war For there little...
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No Such Things as Dreams
Writing by Michael Wu. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. The undergrad has tried telling the black crows, the tall crows in suits, “When I woke...
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The Sea as Queer Liminal Space
Writing by Jessie Irvin Rose. Artwork by Yizhi Liu. I am being held by the ocean. It’s September, and the last time I will go in until...
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The Voice
Writing by Myra Alawadhi. Artwork by Paola Valentina. “Bitch.” The club is packed to the brim and quintessentially rowdy, but his voice...
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In the Smoking Area
Writing by Cristina Rizzo. Artwork by Juliet Richards. “You ok?” He scares me. His voice hugged by the cushioned music from inside the...
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Selected Poems
Writing by Cristina Rizzo. Artwork by Paola Valentina. Santo Stefano in August Ma quanti bagni hai fatto? Tutti! The boy’s happy – a...
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Temptations, Temptations...
Writing by Lola Weisselberg. Artwork by Sarah Dobbs. Down through the sky He cast me, No question or hint of a care. Further and further...
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No Strings
Writing by Michael Wu. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. The first wild grass grows on silver feet of child enchanted by mother’s tales, smoke...
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Cut Up Fruit
Writing by Kaja Kubičková. Illustration by Heather Baillie. When I got sick, I spent all my days lying in bed swaddled in blankets. My...
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Coming soon
Writing by Kirsten Twigg. Illustration by Emily Donelly. Coming soon, Two words that sing a cruel lullaby to my youth. In them I used to...
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Tea Time, Blue Beast, and Flowers in February
Writing by Clem Prime. Illustrations by Annie Whiteson. Tea Time Watching the mould grow in my tea Comforts me It means things Take their...
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I think everyone's burnt out by fourth year
Writing by Justine White. Illustration by Annie Whiteson. I think everyone’s burnt out by fourth year your circle’s circumference closes...
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the hysteric
Writing by Hannah Dove. Illustration by Claire Shankie. here it is. it is festering and ugly and nobody wants to touch it. here, come...
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The Rough Draft
Writing by Lola Weisselberg. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. What the hell is that noise? Oh. Right. Alarm. Shut it off. Shut it off...
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Tasmanian devil/Taz
Writing by Daniel Delfs. Illustration Berenika Murray. When a heart beats against the borders of being An energy artificial or internal,...
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Together Underfoot
Writing by Eitan Orenstein. Illustration via Unsplash. The cage was old and mostly unused. It was used for some things, but not nearly as...
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