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[Poetry] Autopsy by Annika Bratton
It’s all here. Swollen whale tongue, sandcaked and sunripe, split open with estuary blessing to sweet rot Chewing on philosophy at the...
5 hours ago1 min read

![[Essay] Breathing Books](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f265e02b3d2d4ba99f58f93d017dd12b.jpg/v1/fill/w_279,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/f265e02b3d2d4ba99f58f93d017dd12b.webp)
[Essay] Breathing Books
America happens to me. It happens when other places don’t. There’s magic. You need to look at the neon cords of traffic from a hotel up...
19 hours ago6 min read

![[Poetry] Holdfast by Gerry Sloan](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_bcb6eaf5ea2d448ebd5626160eb1a29c~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_278,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_bcb6eaf5ea2d448ebd5626160eb1a29c~mv2.webp)
[Poetry] Holdfast by Gerry Sloan
is what anchors marine vegetation instead of roots for drawing nutrients if this were soil instead of sand, keeps it from drifting into...
2 days ago1 min read

![[Photography] Interview with Mandy Ramsey](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52c352_4ed00c81dfbd46ed810952d11e07bff6~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_278,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/52c352_4ed00c81dfbd46ed810952d11e07bff6~mv2.webp)
[Photography] Interview with Mandy Ramsey
[KELP JOURNAL] At first, Mandy, I thought that these were regular photographs but they are not. It looks like you’ve softened the edges...
3 days ago5 min read

![[Fiction] What I Deserve](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_068bdf0ca4af4ed8a8f76cefaa9a829d~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_279,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_068bdf0ca4af4ed8a8f76cefaa9a829d~mv2.webp)
[Fiction] What I Deserve
By Sophie Hermann My weary arms ached as I hammered in the final nail. There wasn’t much I could do for the ruined fence, but my sorry...
6 days ago29 min read

![[Poetry] Two Poems by David M. Alper](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_670eea8730eb45f1ac357652ddc4b35d~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_278,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_670eea8730eb45f1ac357652ddc4b35d~mv2.webp)
[Poetry] Two Poems by David M. Alper
Snowed The snow fills me like an IV needle, and there is a snowstorm in my brain. Snow is falling today. It's overwhelming, like my...
Mar 272 min read
![[Review] “Happy Pleasant Valley: A Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical” by Min Kahng](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52c352_2bd52da0f90d430ca2fb0774fba0a46a~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_278,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_avif,quality_auto/52c352_2bd52da0f90d430ca2fb0774fba0a46a~mv2.webp)
[Review] “Happy Pleasant Valley: A Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical” by Min Kahng
By A.M. Larks It was only fitting that the best time in my schedule to see Theatreworks’ production of “Happy Pleasant Valley: A Senior...
Mar 263 min read

![[Poetry] Sounding: how the world was made by Christien Gholson](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bd693185163946e3aeca0cecba7645a7.jpg/v1/fill/w_279,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/bd693185163946e3aeca0cecba7645a7.webp)
[Poetry] Sounding: how the world was made by Christien Gholson
Sea lions sound the cave walls, sound the waves beating against the cave entrance, sound the fissures and holes the waves make, shaped...
Mar 252 min read

![[Photography] Interview with Srishty Sharma](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52c352_238342850c984166b651241e3a7730e9~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_278,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/52c352_238342850c984166b651241e3a7730e9~mv2.webp)
[Photography] Interview with Srishty Sharma
[KELP JOURNAL] Let’s dive right in, Srishty! You and I chose these photographs because they share a theme: journey. Each photo takes the...
Mar 245 min read

![[Fiction] We, Who Kept Our Tails](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5a913793d6754a57a73cacc9dbf0d673.jpg/v1/fill/w_278,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/5a913793d6754a57a73cacc9dbf0d673.webp)
[Fiction] We, Who Kept Our Tails
By Rachel Schmidt Our fifteenth birthdays have all been marked by the first trip to the surface. Donning braids woven with sea glass...
Mar 215 min read

![[Poetry] Convocation by Fran Abrams](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_91bce124d50a426ca72ad3dfb218948a~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_279,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_91bce124d50a426ca72ad3dfb218948a~mv2.webp)
[Poetry] Convocation by Fran Abrams
Women whose hair never gets wet convene like broken shells do at the edge of waves They assemble in beach chairs like ancestors sat...
Mar 201 min read

![[Essay] What Did the Fox Say?](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52c352_337fc32e2c65402db6a6f16922267675~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_278,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/52c352_337fc32e2c65402db6a6f16922267675~mv2.webp)
[Essay] What Did the Fox Say?
By Sean Stiny * THIRD PLACE WINNER ANIMAL ESSAY CONTEST * Trigger warning: Image of Dead Animal There's a gray fox in my black...
Mar 193 min read