Latest Posts by r-u-maysa - Page 3

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

donating my heavily annotated copy of house of leaves to the local library so that the person reading it gets a 5th layer of narrative to be confused by

Natalie Díaz, from “Skin-Light”, Postcolonial Love Poem

Joanna Klink, from “Night Sky”, The Nightfields

you should really get comfortable believing in love and magic and whimsy or you’ll continue to live a half-life for the rest of the time you have on earth

the curse is lifted! you are no a beast no more! congratulations! but you'll never forget the way they looked at you, will you.

bitch this is all you’re gonna get. this life, this face, this body. you better not ‘maybe in another universe’ your way out of everything. sit your ass down and face this. go make tea and have a picnic and read a goddamn book. kiss your loved ones, send that damn text, and hug your siblings. this is all you’re gonna get.

saw a woman comforting her sobbing child saying “i already told you, you have to keep looking forward, looking back just gets you hurt” and i thought she was sharing a beautiful life lesson about the importance of letting go of regret and resentment. but it turns out the kid just wasn’t looking where he was going and ran into a wall

betraying someone who trusts them deeply is one of the sexiest things a character can do its unparalleled. cause either the relationship is irrevocably changed and said character is completely at fault (guilt complex, hot) or it isnt and then both sides have to deal with the fact that they care about each other enough to overlook the betrayal (unceasing devotion, also hot)

Richard Siken

from Simone Weil’s Pre-War Notebook

Peter De Potter, A Spartan for a Single Bed, erotic zine, issue 3, published november 2024, limited edition

www.peterdepotterindex.com

Love Prodigal, Traci Brimhall

Swan Song, Armen Davoudian

What Remains, Hannah Arendt

Find Me as the Creature I Am, Emily Jungmin Yoon

Slow Kill, Jordan Charlton

The Pink Box, Yesenia Montilla

A Nail the Evening Hangs On, Monica Sok

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, Anne de Marcken

Belly to the Brutal, Jennifer Givhan

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, Anne de Marcken

oooohhhh ok. the more you deny yourself the more you lose yourself

I twist like a sunflower at the sound of your voice.

— Kait Rokowski, from "The Civil Guillotine" in So Much For the Mercy Kill

Franny Choi, Soft Science

Jennifer Chang, "The World", Some Say the Lark

― Hiromi Kawakami, The Briefcase

Kaveh Akbar, from "Wild Pear Tree"

2025

ACTION IS THE ANTIDOTE TO DESPAIR

KEEP THE FAITH DO THE WORK

PASSION ABOVE ALL IS THE REMEDY AGAINST BOREDOM

EVERY DAY IS ALL THERE IS

WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE