Clarkisha Kent’s memoir Fat Off, Fat On is conversational, snarky, sarcastic, casual, funny, and raw.
REVIEW: Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto by Clarkisha Kent
REVIEW: Without Saints: Essays by Christopher Locke
I could feel the first pages viscerally, the looming evil of a destructive faith present in the author’s youth as it had been in mine.
Contributor & Alumni Updates: Spring 2023
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The Cake by Michaela Evanow
I want to make an extravagant birthday cake that I won’t eat.
Blind Spots I Have (Not) Known by Judith Katzman
The drinking fountain on the left is a humming machine. The one on the right looks like a bathroom sink…
Goodbye America by Itoro Bassey
I went to a Buddhist monastery…to find relief from the usual suspects: workaholism, relationships, the 24-hour news cycle…
Another Day in Sales by Vincent Antonio Rendoni
My father comes in late from work, real late, humming the bars of Black Magic Woman…
Thrift Store Stories by Leighton Schreyer
These are the sweatpants I wore; when I tried to end my life…
Via Crucis Via Lucis by Cynthia Gralla
The nurse told me that if I resisted the insertion of my nasogastric tube, she’d restrain me and shove it up my nose. I was 11.
Unfolding by Dheepa R. Maturi
Two months ago, she showed me the 52-year-old fabric, folded into a neat rectangle.
