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The overall feeling of this abstract acrylic painting is vibrant and busy. The central color is a light blue striated vertically with white. There is evidence of obfuscation; the light blue and striated white has been painted on and scraped off again to allow gold, turquoise and magenta layers to peek through from underneath. Magenta ink marks scratch, gouge, and swirl atop and within the blue layer. Some of these ink marks make tendrils suggesting neurons or nerves.

Issue 1

Poetry

Two Poems

Shahd Alshammari

​Second Person (With Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome)

Katie Darby Mullins

Three Poems

Dana Henry Martin

Body, Rewritten

Gloria Ogo

Two Poems

Nathan Spoon

Three Poems

Emma Bolden

Three Poems

William Fargason

Two Poems

Arden Eli Hill

Two Poems

Christopher Phelps

Yoga with Adriene with Gender Feelings

Ash Trebisacci

Two Poems

Emily Rose Cole

more for the day of access manifesto

Alec Finlay

On Bad Mental Health Days

Rita Maria Martinez

When I’ve Supped on Fear

Sage Ravenwood

Didn’t Mean, Didn’t

Leonore Wilson

Three Poems

john compton

Two Poems

Jeannine Hall Gailey

Two Poems

Brittany Micka-Foos

Two Poems

lauren samblanet

I Don't See You Much These Days

Alizabeth Worley

Nonfiction

Normal

Jacqueline Doyle

Chronicity

Sonya Huber

One Close Call

Sandra Gail Lambert

Mammary

Sumitra Singam

Art

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Neuron Twinkle

Jill Khoury

A black and white photograph of a tall, snow-capped mountain reflected in a fjord’s estuary is inverted so the mountain is upsidedown; an x-ray is digitally layered and integrated into the image, showing the artist’s arched spine and the screws, plates, spacers, and cages holding it together. The word FLEXION appears in all caps, floating in the sky.

Estuary

Jessamyn Smyth

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Pins

Court Ludwick

The Embodied Condition

Jessamyn Smyth

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& Needles

Court Ludwick

A frontal black and white x-ray of the artist’s spinal hardware and the trunk of her body is interrupted by the figure of a manikin with disjointed limbs, articulate and beautiful hands, and a pensive expression that seems to be gazing into the cage of the pelvis and screws. From the front, the hardware looks like seahorses.

Uncanny Valley

Jessamyn Smyth

Fiction

Seven

Rachel Drouillard

Little Boy Lost

Matt Kendrick

Excerpt from The Migraine Diaries

Zach Powers

Hybrid

Mapping Rupture

Catherine Garbinsky

Excerpt from Drag Thing

Gabe Montesanti

How to Hold a Dragon

Christine L Roland

Three Erasures

Brenna Womer

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