At the Huntington Gardens Something monstrous turns my way but is blanketed by the prettiest lilac down all gushed in purple-white. —“Mourn You Better,” Muriel Leung Lotus (nelumbo nucifera): once cherished in [ ]; the flower that rises...
The islets look like turtles with mossy backs, sleeping breathless in the placid lake. Nothing stirs. The Arctic summer has flooded the sky and erased the landmarks between hours and days. I walk around in a daze, wide-eyed, not knowing how tired I am, like a child...
Maura, last night you asked me if Flirting With Misandry was a good title. I said you should fill a lake with misandry and swim around in it— that’d be better, why flirt when you can fuck it— and you laughed in lithe indigos. Like titles were genders in the making,...
It started out in uncontained excitement. The sky was incomprehensible, vision compromised by a thick white fog that blanketed almost every inch of the environment. The trees, the grass, the red soil, the landmarks – everything, it seemed, had been sucked up by the...
After An Suk-seon and Eleana J. Kim 생전사후 이 원통을 알어 줄이가 뉘 있드란 말이냐 춘향가 중 “쑥대머리” I once read a book about landmines. It described a man whose name I don’t remember scavenging along the DMZ. I don’t remember how, but the metal in the landmines made him a life in his...
She had learned to read for this outing, but that didn’t stop her from ignoring the sign stuck to the window. The glass was solid, stoic beneath her clammy hands. The delicate clouds of condensation left by her fingertips were almost enough to fascinate her. Almost....
It’s that time of year—and our Pushcart Prize nominations are in! The Pushcart anthology is an annual publication that highlights short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction published by little magazines and small indie presses from around the world. It is a well-known...
The Selkie has a long tradition of proudly championing traditionally marginalised voices. As part of our efforts, we are excited to announce that we have nominated several contributions for the 2024 Best of the Net anthology. Best of the Net, a project created by...
A squealing giggle broke through the radio static for a moment, making the laughter sound older than it might have been. ‘You’re coming home,’ it whispered as Lucy and Sawyer drove down the highway, the only light coming from their car. Weeds had even started to push...
When Aaron Fletcher became the boy that got to 137 mph on the M76, everyone heard about it, including the police. The way Aaron tells it, they couldn’t catch him, even blue-lighting all the way to the edge of the slate-grey sea. I was amazed that Aaron’s 1997 Skoda...
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