I was alone now, except the mold still had a strong presence I couldn’t ignore.  

I wondered if Pia was right, then, if I was seeking something too dangerous to be handled, a bomb that would kill me someday.

Where she had rubbed away the grime, her eyes shined intensely.

A comic with three different endings

Kulu cranks her jaws wide open upon seeing us

Maybe you should’ve said something sooner, Robert.

A notebook on alchemy, memory, and sensation

I had vowed to be different, but I wasn’t able to escape servitude, even eight thousand miles away in New York.

You’re brought up by blue, Father said.

I wonder how the body knows it’s ready to feed another life. Does it even get a choice to be ready?

Kay hirap maging mahirap, kung hindi ka pa manginig sa galit ay hindi ka pa iintindihin.
| It’s so hard to be poor. If you don’t tremble with rage, they won’t try to understand you.

I pride myself on not having regrets.

Astrological insights from twelve of our most recent flash stories

Someone up there in charge of making the sky beautiful.

Their beautiful skin is the color of perfection, the shade of impeccably cooked lechón.

Stars, trees, lasers, lights, everything locking into nothing, everything together yet apart.

Because the summer feels more hellfire than hellfire.

What if the world was stuck, frozen, and we could go anywhere we wanted, together?

A few steps are all that separate us.

We—our family—had so little to give each other; maybe we needed to look elsewhere.