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EVERY DRESS IS A SIMILE by Vhi Ki Nao

INNANET by Jessica Q. Stark

MY MY SUMMER OF TOTAL FFAILURE by Ava Hofmann

The Double Slit Experiment by Christine Gosnay

Songs for 3:45 AM by Marton Simon translated by Timea Sipos

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from “Back to the Future” (an archival issue)

“If Thought is Life” by Aditi Machado

(originally published 2015)
If Thought is Life
If I am alive

If I am thinking
nothing has stopped

in the way of wheels
I cannot leave

If where I was born
was a basin

Where was it
I was thinking

If I breathe
If the wind

If resilient
the basin

is cold
and thinking

tensile

If thought is life
and the want

of thought is death
the incendiary dress

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INNANET by Jessica Q. Stark
MY MY SUMMER OF TOTAL FFAILURE by Ava Hofmann
THE DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT by Christine Gosnay
SONGS FOR 3:45 AM by Márton Simon translated by Timea Sipos
FAR FROM GLORIOUS FEELING by Avni Vyas
WILL YOU KISS ME GOODNIGHT by Katie Jean Shinkle
MAP: MOMENTS OF ASTRAL PROJECTION by Mariam Ahmed
UNSUNG SONGS by Vivian Houle
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