TOUCHSTONE My child’s fairy-tale quilt is frail: the wizard ripped, the prince bald, the fairy’s wing clipped. Only t…
Issue 067: August 2022
New Fiction from Eddie Freeman: “Gideon’s Thesis”
Gideon, a senior majoring in journalism at the University of California, Santa Cruz, fidgeted nervously. He wanted to…
New Poetry from Marc Tretin: “Justin Alter, Slightly Drunk, Addresses Maya, Who Is In Egypt” and “Maya Ricci Alter After Excavating A Pyramid South Of Zairo”
JUSTIN ALTER, SLIGHTLY DRUNK, ADDRESSES MAYA, WHO IS IN EGYPT Now as I am hungover and queasy stumping about the tilt…
New Fiction from J. Malcolm Garcia: “Viraj”
Viraj sat in a room behind the motel reception counter, eating a bowl of bhaat with his fingers when the desk bell ch…
New Nonfiction from Fabrizia Faustinella: “Infinitesimal Possibilities”
You are in the stairwell, standing with a few of your fellow medical students, waiting for that door in the basement …