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14/07/2025

“later, an apocalypse
that is somehow worse than now. an apocalypse so bad the factories have
stopped”

—from “I Worry These Are the Good Times,” by Aran Donovan, from our Spring 2025 issue: https://bit.ly/tsrspring25

Art by Keren Kroul

12/07/2025

“My resolution on my twenty-seventh birthday was to stay alive until I reached my twenty-ninth. I’d been keeping it for a year and a half.”

—from “My Dying Process,” by Yiru Zhang, from our Spring 2025 issue: https://bit.ly/tsrspring25

Art by Keren Kroul

10/07/2025

“…now I wonder if love’s
the wall the starfish cling to or the water they musn’t
climb too far from or suction itself or just
the whole ocean.”

—from “Just the Whole Ocean,” by Weston Cutter, from our Spring 2025 issue: https://bit.ly/tsrspring25

Art by Keren Kroul

07/07/2025

“You lost your two best friends.
You were lost too soon as well,
have been gone now such a long, long time.”

—from “Floppy Cap,” by Sydney Lea, from our Spring 2025 issue: https://bit.ly/tsrspring25

Art by Keren Kroul

05/07/2025

“Down a long ravine, heat
drives them against barbwire,
the ash so greasy it smears their fur
gleaming in upwhirling flame.”

—from “Deer Fleeing a Forest Fire,” by Tom Sleigh, from our Spring 2025 issue: https://bit.ly/tsrspring25

Art by Keren Kroul

03/07/2025

“Her garden is nothing more than earth and dust now. But she can’t just let her walnut tree die.”

—from “Yellow Dust,” by Zoé Derleyn translated from French by Charlotte Coombe, from our Spring 2025 issue: https://bit.ly/tsrspring25

Art by Keren Kroul

30/06/2025

“I’m not sure
she could recall the word handsome, not even
man, but the fervid eyes had not forgotten
what brought them joy”

—from “Amnesia Sounds Like a Kind of Flower,” by Mairead Small Staid, from our Spring 2025 issue: https://bit.ly/tsrspring25

Art by Keren Kroul

28/06/2025

“Neither of us has a dog in this fight, but she knows
what loyalty looks like and knows there’s no
not taking sides.”

—from “Someone Else’s Story,” by Bobby C. Rogers, from our Spring 2025 issue: https://bit.ly/tsrspring25

Art by Keren Kroul

26/06/2025

“There were no cues, no warnings, no premonitions. The day felt achingly ordinary.”

—from “The Certainty Engine,” by Phong Nguyen, from our Spring 2025 issue: https://bit.ly/tsrspring25

Art by Keren Kroul

23/06/2025

“Yes, we’re all relieved when bad news is happening
elsewhere to someone else, at least for the time being.”

—from “Good News,” by Philip Schultz, from our Spring 2025 issue: https://bit.ly/tsrspring25

Art by Keren Kroul

21/06/2025

“I love the d***y little sun-washed, pug-eyed frog statue
the prior owners left behind.”

—from “Who Would Destroy Me,” by Andrew Hemmert, from our Spring 2025 issue: https://bit.ly/tsrspring25

Art by Keren Kroul

19/06/2025

“son of s. slaughter, yes, slaughter,
as in to kill an animal
for food.”

—from “Tuition Ledger: Slaughter, 1859–1863,” by El Williams III, from our Spring 2025 issue: https://bit.ly/tsrspring25

Art by Keren Kroul

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