Paranoia and Prudery are compatible coordinates in the exact plane of deliverance
“It will deny and deny, as if/ Paranoia comes with plumed fluorescent feathers./ As if prudery is self-acknowledging.” Weekend poem, by Divya Rajan.
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Lint
“I liked the kid. He made me nervy, but I liked him. If he hadn’t come along, I wouldn’t have made it. I wouldn’t have even made it halfway backwards if I had it in me to try.” Story of the Week (August 28), by N.V. Baker.
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Morning and Afternoon,
“night pushes at// the stars, at what/ we hope survives…” Poem of the Week (August 26), by Tom Montag.
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On missing the family
“This is how he remembers his family,/ this is how he misses them. Meanwhile,/ just outside the dingy rented room they/ still go on fighting…” Weekend poem, by Souradeep Roy.
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Bengali Chain
“I see us as we were, a couple, standing in a wound…/Thin strips of heat peel off the gutted pavement…” Poem of the Week (August 21), by Thomas C. Dunn.
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The Stories I Am Always Writing
“In this story I will write about a character who will walk around a tiny artificial bush of plants trying to find meaning in an argument that happened last night…” Story of the Week (August 21), by Debojit Dutta.
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Bluestocking at twilight
“She’d watch her victims—only in a mirror—/ Their eyes held loose verbs from books she’d once read/ and read just once.” Weekend poem, by Mark J. Mitchell.
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Feynman’s Vaudevillian Dream of the Hardy-Ramanujan Number
“The starfish. I saw it on an English beach one frigid morning. Its five arms splitting me like five infinities…” Poem of the Week (August 11), by Arjun Rajendran.
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Maria
“I’ve more sins than they have saints/ She laughs, and prays her hand to her mouth…” Weekend Poem, by Phoebe Stuckes.
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A Life
“We begin with a girl and end with an old woman.” Story of the Week (August 7), by Robert Earle.
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