An obscene mylar balloon gets stuck in a tree, starting a war between neighboring tribes.
A young daughter eats her mother’s flesh to remember where she came from. A recent college graduate returns to her working-class neighborhood, cares for her terminally ill mother, joins a local gang, and hosts Noz (nitrous oxide) parties. Tags: A Better Class of People, A Year & Other Poems, Against Heaven, Akwaeke Emezi, All the Things We Don't Talk About, Amy Brady, Angel Dominguez, Animal Bodies, Ben Shattuck, bianca stone, Bitter Orange Tree, Body Work, Brown Girls, Chelsea Bieker, Christine Kandic Torres, Cleyvis Natera, Constellation Route, Content Warning: Everything, Cost of Living, courtney maum, customs, Dana Levin, Daniel HoSang, Daphne Palasi Andreades, Desgraciado, Emily Florence Maloney, Eva Jurczyk, Fiona and Jane, Fixed Stars, Gabrielle Civil, Heartbroke, I Only Cry in Emoticons, Ian MacAllen, Jean Chen Ho, Jennifer Huang, Jokha Alharthi, Jos Charles, Kathryn Schulz, Katya Kazbek, Kemi Alabi, Kids in America, Kim Fu, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Kyung-Sook Shin, Laura Stanfill, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Lidia Yuknavitch, Little Foxes Took Up Matches, Liz Prato, Lost & Found, Maria Gainza, Marisa Siegel, marlon james, Matthew Olzmann, Melissa Febos, Michael Wasson, Moon Witch Spider King, Neruda on the Park, Nita Prose, Now Do You Know Where You Are, Ocean Vuong, Olga Dies Dreaming, Portrait of an Unknown Lady, Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American, Return Flight, robert lopez, Seeking Fortune Elsewhere, Sindya Bhanoo, Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary, Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, Solmaz Sharif, Suzanne Roberts, Swallowed Light, Tajja Isen, Tanaïs, The Déjá Vu, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, The Girls in Queens, The Maid, The Trees Witness Everything, The World As We Knew It, The Year of the Horses, Time Is a Mother, Under the Blacklight, Victoria Chang, What Is Otherwise Infinite, What to Read When, Xochitl Gonzalez, Yuvi ZalkowĪ young narrator silently watches her mother chop up nearly everything around her.