Void Whales do not sing of water, weight, deep.But explore the interstellar nightWhere antiquated, noiseless comets sleep.Their songs are woven out of nonappearance, lightThat passed on a billion years after our birth,And gravity’s inflexible, dim weight.A soloist will breach the hull of Earth’s thin climate, and taste the sun-based wind,Only…
Feline Domestication by Mary Soon Lee
Post Uplift, a paltry span of yearsbefore cats domesticated people (a process begun centuries earlier,of course, but previously incomplete) in place of the politics of conflictcame the peace of hearth and home in place of human acquisitivenessa relinquishment of possessions each sofa, each soft cushion, each laprightfully owned by the…
“At the Edge of the Tale” by T.R. Steele
Issue 2 – Summer 2025 Twirl watched from her perch on the lintel as they brought the unicorn into the stable and shut the door. She was up before the rest of the flock, and had been the first of the barn swallows to notice: the stables were emptied overnight,…
“Hound of Annwn” by Rem Wigmore
Issue 2 – Summer 2025 The Master of the Hunt has the smell you like best in the world: a heady mix of moss and bone, leather and oil. Just a trace of a complex scent like standing in a clearing under the moon, cold and bright and stirring with…
“The Sea Turtle Teaches Us to Migrate” by Oladosu Michael Emerald
hatching prayer: crawl toward the moon-spilled path—light pollution breaks the promise of mother wave swim, small god, through plastic reefs, (current carries the wound) the ocean is colonized myth: sonar mines/war-torn plankton/lost languages that used to shimmer off the back of whales ask the turtles of guam how to dodge…
“Mild Fish and Linen” by Veronica Mullin
Issue 2 – Summer 2025 An ember orange cat lazed upon the windowsill where the late sun spilled like syrup across the weathered cottage floorboards. He watched a moth trace frantic, invisible runes against the glass. Its soot-grey wings beat in erratic pulses. Once, he would have read omens in…
“Flames Sprout Wings” by Christina D. Goodman
Issue 2 – Summer 2025 What is the life of a chicken?The life of a chicken is the flock.The life of a chicken is order.The life of a chicken is brutality.—from The Catechism of the Divine Flock Kiki perched on a berry bush at the edge of the forest as…
“After a Wolf Swallowed the Sun” by Akis Linardos
Issue 2 – Summer 2025 Chased by Man’s machines, the Golden Wolf runs, his fur glowing bright across the dark desert. Sand builds up on his throat, and his eyes smart from the thrashing of coarse, acid winds, but his legs refuse to give, won’t even slow. There’s refuge past…
“Cruising Over Cozumel Coral” by Priya Sridhar
Issue 2 – Summer 2025 When the ocean breeze rushes through mangroves, they don’t rustle the way palm trees do. They shiver with the weight of diamond-shaped trees and years of growth. You hear the lap of waves against their roots, lodged deep in the estuary. Those roots contain calm…
“The Dogs Built a Church” by Oladosu Michael Emerald
Issue 2 – Summer 2025 (& buried us beneath it) one day the dogs walked off-leash & never bame back. we thought: oh, the poor things—until the sky howled. the dogs came back with language. with a new calendar (year zero: the first broken collar) they built churches with their…