— or the ketchup packet one / over in the adjacent deli, the dearth of good strawberries / in produce.

In 1996, the year my mother died of a heroin overdose, Purdue Pharma started to sell OxyContin in the United States.

house become island, as inland pushes out / land. Outlandish, you say, this push and pull—

I / am ruined / how could I / ever leave / this wound

The form asks for / my job. Stay-at-home-parent, / a response given by the dozen, / lands wrong these months.

What hard truths do you need to examine about our current systems so you can see yourself more expansively in your own honesty?

TSW Art Director, Meg Sykes, on creating the featured image for Issue 13: Rebellious Joy

TSW Artist in Residence, Bianca Ng, on creating the featured art for Issue 13: Rebellious Joy

TSW Artist in Residence, Bianca Ng, writes a meditative inquiry into rest

A companion guide of supplemental materials for Issue 13: Rebellious Joy

We’re all on the grassy patch of land east of Christ the King, our school, with our uniform plaid skirts hiked, wearing way too much lip-gloss and not enough deodorant.

When Mom called to tell me the news that Memito had died, I went to go fish out that old photo from what could barely be called a closet.

I came / I was culled

My fifteen dozen eggs––compulsive purchase of inherited scarcity––are delivered in blue cardboard honeycomb.