Issue 2 – Summer 2025 Fiction – 3411 words 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…
“Hound of Annwn” by Rem Wigmore
Issue 2 – Summer 2025 Fiction – 3195 words 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…
“The Sea Turtle Teaches Us to Migrate” by Oladosu Michael Emerald
Issue 2 – Summer 2025 Poem – 11 lines 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…
“Mild Fish and Linen” by Veronica Mullin
Issue 2 – Summer 2025 Fiction – 3031 words 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…
“Flames Sprout Wings” by Christina D. Goodman
Issue 2 – Summer 2025 Fiction – 4065 words 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…
“After a Wolf Swallowed the Sun” by Akis Linardos
Issue 2 – Summer 2025 Fiction – 1002 words 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…
“Cruising Over Cozumel Coral” by Priya Sridhar
Issue 2 – Summer 2025 Essay – 1077 words 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….
“The Dogs Built a Church” by Oladosu Michael Emerald
Issue 2 – Summer 2025 Poem – 16 lines (& 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…
“Bee City: An Interview” by Oladosu Michael Emerald
Issue 2 – Summer 2025Poem – 11 lines HOST: welcome back to The Hive Mind, today we’re speaking with Her Majesty’s Proxy about the recent drone revolt and the nectar inflation crisis. Proxy, thanks for buzzing in. PROXY: it is always a pleasure to pollinate the discourse. HOST: critics say…
“In the Sea of Binary Stars” by Simone Heller
Issue 2 – Summer 2025 Fiction – 1525 words When the pain and confusion ebb away and oblivion takes you like a current lapping at your flanks, so pleasantly warm it could still be blood, you finally swim again. Your weight slouches off you, like it always does when you…