Heart on Our Sleeves
Issue #1: Blood Pressure
"Blood Pressure": the inherent stress we feel and put on ourselves through our connections to our family, our communities, and each other.
This issue grapples with the complex emotions that come with societal expectations, worldly woes, and internal pressure. Follow along with the pieces from our contributing writers to experience the highs and lows that come with our physical and psychic connections both here on earth and beyond.
Heart on Our Sleeves
Issue #2: Collide-oscope
“Collide-oscope,” a term of our own invention, is based on the device of the same name: a children’s toy made of broken glass, gems, or paper that utilizes a complex network of mirrors to display ever-changing patterns of color and light.
In the same vein, this issue strives to showcase just that: characters clashing, universes colliding, shrapnel coming off ideas as they smash together across both heart and page. We invite you to keep your minds open and your wits sharp as you take in the following pieces from our contributing writers, each chasing after this theme of collision through the lens of their own paradigm.
.png)
Heart on Our Sleeves
Issue #3: Literary Lioness
The contents of this issue are crafted by writers who have found inspiration both inwards and outwards: in themselves, in their mothers, their daughters, their sisters, their nieces, their friends, their mentors, their ancestors, and even in history itself. The feminine experience is often a fraught one; but it also one filled with unique joys, often forged and preserved by the invisible weavings of our progenitresses.
​
So here, we’ve let the lioness loose. With her fur already matted in blood, viscera and sinew trapped between her pointed claws and her wicked-sharp teeth, she has nothing to prove. Yet, she’ll rise again—for herself, for her pride, for all the lionesses that came before and after her.
​​
After all, what’s writing without a little bite?