Fan Culture… [ISSUE I] What if we were allowed to just exist and be happy? by Ari Ochoa Petzold 11 Apr 2022 Inspired by Katharine McCain's essays “Today Your Barista Is: Genre Characteristics in The Coffee Shop Alternate Universe" & "Fans Love It a Latte: The Rise and Participatory Nature of Coffee…
Poetry [ISSUE I] A Brewed Backdoor by Siddhi Joshi 11 Apr 2022 i bask in the emptiness of uncertainties,and the pauses between laughters.the city has swallowed my moon,under the regime of oscillating gunpowder. the day you forgot your wallet in a foreign…
Fan Culture… [ISSUE I] Dearest Coffee House on the Corner, by Anthony Garcia 11 Apr 2022 Anthony Garcia (He/But I'll Never Be Him) will one day consider himself a writer. He is currently completing his MFA in Creative Writing at the California Institute of the Arts. He…
Poetry [ISSUE I] If I Were Your Coffee Mug by Lynne Schmidt 11 Apr 2022 Lynne Schmidt is the grandchild of a Holocaust survivor, and mental health professional with a focus in trauma and healing. They are the winner of the 2020 New Women's Voices Contest…
Critical Analysis… [ISSUE I] Bean There, Drank That by Anushka Bidani 11 Apr 2022 Notes on "Bean There, Drank That" After Bryony Bates’ stunning text “Hannibal Lecter’s Magic Dick Therapy,” published by MAI in 2018. First sentences are revealing. As a reader, I usually…
Poetry What He Doesn’t Know Won’t Hurt Me by Rachel Tanner 23 Oct 202117 Oct 2024 “Make sure nobody sees you leave –hood over your head, keep your eyes down.Tell your friends you’re out for a run;you’ll be flushed when you return.” —Taylor Swift, “Illicit Affairs”…
Poetry 2 Poems by Russell Nichols 17 Oct 202118 Oct 2021 The Two Towers (or: The Battle for the Throne in the Home of Biggie Smalls) YU NAIM THE ANIMALL. I came on a missionbut I couldn't read the sign;enraged by…
Poetry Little, Little, Little Things by Rachel Tanner 19 Sep 202117 Oct 2024 "This is me swallowing my pridestanding in front of yousaying I'm sorry for that night" --Taylor Swift, “Back to December” I think of you gently sometimes the skyis big enough…
Poetry 3 Poems by Shontay Luna 25 Jul 2021 For Coco I see you,the fear thatholds youin a suffocatingcaress as glimpsesof your formerworld shatter.They fall,helplessly intocountless piecesthat glitter intodaylight. Makingthe sight of themeven more painful. A Conversation Between Celi…
Poetry Let Other Pens Dwell on Before by Gabrielle Roessler 14 Jul 2021 image source I dreamed of Darcybut fell foreverysingleWickhamthat looked my way. But the story we writescrambles alongthe scaffolding of Austen,takes the thingwith feathersand carries Lovebeyond whereour paper imaginationcan reach. Gabrielle is…