the ampersand

In Transit By Alex Kim Alex Kim (he/him) is a Chinese-Korean student studying in New Hampshire. He is an aspiring photographer and mainly photographs his school’s swim team and the small, suburban town surrounding his high school.

Inspired by the author’s experience working on boats during the COVID pandemic and refracted through the myth of the Tower of Babel, Edifice unfolds within a vast, ever-growing structure maintained by a quarantined community fractured by language. Through labor, accident, ritual, and desire, the story examines the necessity of Sisyphean endeavor and the fragile yet…

Sister As Ekphrasis By Micah Cozzens There was some space for us—three kids, two bedrooms. Brother got one, sisters the other: two girls, one room, and so I heard her come in the night a man offended her pride, and when another made her cry, and when her friends said something they didn’t mean, and…