Contributor History
- House of Halls, Online 08-07-2012
- Four Marriages, Online 04-05-2016
Biography
Joseph Aguilar is the author of Half Out Where. Recent work is in Okey-Panky, Iowa Review, Tin House, and Threepenny Review.
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by Jed Munson
October 20, 2021
Launch
codes, we stripped species,
our insecure
hands of gloves
to crack the test to our capitalizable
future. Pray
for the multiverse I’m working on
at midnight.
codes, we stripped species,
our insecure
hands of gloves
to crack the test to our capitalizable
future. Pray
for the multiverse I’m working on
at midnight.
October 13, 2021
Forgive us. We were waiting
here, in the thickening ice. We worked a long time. Now
we try to give what we found, a little basket
hiding behind each back, full of the young shoots.
They are so green. Mercifully green. We say so. Yes,
they are alive, we say. We, too. We are still sick.
here, in the thickening ice. We worked a long time. Now
we try to give what we found, a little basket
hiding behind each back, full of the young shoots.
They are so green. Mercifully green. We say so. Yes,
they are alive, we say. We, too. We are still sick.
by Joy Baglio
October 6, 2021
Friday night, and you have done the unthinkable. You’ve taken your father’s Jackal Ghost bowling ball from its locked hard-shell case under your mother’s bed—the ball that looks like a purple and black version of the earth, a jackal’s head rising from the swirls—and gone to meet Teddy and Zeke and Evan and Marya, most importantly Marya, for a night of bowling, the game your dead father was obsessed with: the game that, according to your mother, ruins people.
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