Author: Porridge Magazine

ONE POEM – Freya Zhang

You know the opposite of moonlight is a nest woven by darkness,
and you know your heart is a place where people ache,
where people no longer feed their birds on fire.

ONE POEM – Nora Selmani

what it would be like to be a skeleton.

what would happen if each dermal layer melted into the air
& my red stop light flesh went with it
without so much as a snap, crackle or pop?

FLASH FICTION – J.A. Pak

love is not you but a driving beat disguised in fast-moving glamour

ONE POEM – Julien Chatel

You make a landscape with tiny things
Turn late-night buns into morning seas

TWO POEMS – Penney Knightly

we are wrestling for the same
hooks in time
we are bitter catches
broken holed and punchy

ART: THE INK SAID – Gabrielle Turner

My inkscapes explore the transition between boundaries and intimacy; what it means to yield and to resist; to begin and end.

TWO POEMS – Zlatitsa Markova

I fell in love with this city through your eyes
and from the back of taxi cabs.

TWO POEMS – Jack William Mulvaney

Sadly, saw one dead cat
Cut down on pavement side
A few in lament stood over
Its lifeless body, white

ONE POEM – Elizabeth Ruth Deyro

Cold waters caress my feet like lovers kept apart
by chance. Foam meets flesh. Flesh kisses sand deeply,
forming wet clay against my soles. I press harder—

ONE POEM – Michael Akuchie

i am a city mad with fear

with sunshine eating up bodies in the open air

TWO POEMS – Michelle Diaz

I want to scrape back the clouds
and bring morning to you on a tray,
allow you that extra hour.

SHORT STORY – Viv Mah

In the worst of Anna’s dreams, Eric is always at his best: more alert, more alive, and more charming than she can remember.