Porridge

ONE POEM – Rose Foran

I saw them. In the mind’s eye.
A vision once obscured, then clarified.

VIDEO: 2020aliveness – Maggz

‘where reality and subconsciousness overlap and everything blends.’

ONE POEM – Jhilam Chattaraj

Cubed potatoes, sliced onions—their oil bath
followed by a tender sauna.

ONE POEM – Imogen Osborne

We return to find
the magnolia still
bruising itself into blossom.

SHORT STORY – Annie Dobson

Compulsory heterosexuality rots the brain, has rotted my brain. I just wanted to undo, unlive it.

ONE POEM – Bradley David

Then to discover we both go
first for that old chipped blue soup bowl

Is that love?

Some observations concerning the desirability of a new paradigm for medicine

We physicians have never had a clearly defined mission. That mattered less when expectations were lower and we could do less. Now though, the reigning paradigm is grounded in basic science, excessively confident, inpatient-centric, and broadly focused on treatment of symptoms and signs, on diagnosis and therapy. The development of a new medical paradigm seems…

The Piano Man – Frances Green

That night that the piano man and I first slept together was the night we discovered the pleasure of talking aloud about murder.

ONE POEM – Denisa Vítová

I spilled pinot noir on the bed sheet
and said I was a virgin.

In Time I Find Strength, in Time I Get Caught in the Memories of Food – Hamnah Khan

In Time I Find Strength, in Time I Get Caught in the Memories of Food There had been a time when I had been told that if I had to go through the most important events in my life I would remember only a mere hour of them, all of them painfully squished against each…

ONE POEM – Lucy Holme

Unlike a jellyfish, she has a brain but doubts her instinct for survival.
swoop siren, dive under.

ART: ALL IS ONE – Camila Curiel

We are bound to nature, worms and dirt, we come from earth, and to earth we will return.