On Mentors, Writing in Anxious Times, Numbers, and Writing to Themes
Issue 38 contributors weigh in on mentorship, writing in anxious times, and what to make of themes.
I Know Someday You’ll Have a Beautiful Life by Sumitra Singam
Your sixteen-year-old body feels a spark—indecent, unladylike. The guitar licks the flames eager. You can see the disapproving faces of your parents.
Dorothy by Andrew Graham Martin
Who told you there could be ghosts in your closet? That you have the same number of fingers as toes? That we live in a lovely and humid place called Indianapolis, Indiana?
The Tenth Testicle by S.A. Greene
When a third testicle dropped, he asked her to enlarge his trousers so he could house everything more comfortably and she said which century do you think we’re living in?
Appa’s Tenth Day by Vijayalakshmi Sridhar
In wet clothes, I am sitting cross-legged on the floor—the fan of Amma’s nine-yards grazing her legs—calves with bulging blue veins and heels that are cracked like a desert floor within my viewing range.