October 16, 2026
Excerpts from Antigone at the Rot Party
Antigone rises and holds the envelope against her window. The glass is thick, muffling the noise of Thebes and its war. She reads the invitation again in the moonlight. The envelope is red, or maybe it is green. Someone has been careful with its design. She opens the window and witnesses as best she can. Somewhere beyond the city’s seven gates are her brothers. Somewhere further still, fate. She takes a certain pride in not turning away, but she also fears that it is nothing, the looking.
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October 7, 2026
Marking Three Years of Genocide in Gaza: Hug Machine
by Eman Basher
In my first writing session with Dr. Refaat, I sat there, staring at the blank page. I wrote nothing.
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July 31, 2026
In Response to the Capsized Boat and 65 People Drowned off the Tunisian Coast, a Flood of White Americans and Europeans on Twitter Write Who Cares and Thank You and Good, and I Tell My Father
by Leila Chatti
At a distance, I assume others are kind, and this seems an essential difference.
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