ETERNAL

Submissions now open for the first issue of our new online literary magazine, ETERNAL. Deadline is March 31, 2024.

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“I start pulling my guts out,

those red silk cords, spiraling skyward,

and I'm climbing them

past the moon and the sun,

past darkness

into white.

I mean to live”

— from "Nothing But Color"

Ai

“o small, broken god, make me ring. Remind me / what terrible music my iron jaw can still make.”


Franny Choi

“your face turning from mine

to keep from cumming


8 strawberries in a wet blue bowl”

— from "Vulnerability Study"

Solmaz Sharif

“살아보려고, 사람처럼 한번 살아보려고

대학을 가고, 취직하고, 꿈을 쫓는 당신이

진짜 멋진 게 아니면

도대체 뭘 보고 멋지다고 해야 할까요.”


Taewan Ha
hands covering eyes
Softness
I hear that soft underbelly of a voice and I'm staring at you. I hear it in my asl teacher, my therapist, my sister. That biting of the tongue-that swallowing of teeth- that choking of spit that is not really choking, swallowing, or biting at all. It's in the mauling from a dog that has […]
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Blue
Blue is the color of my bloodbefore the knife enters my back. Backstabbers. Blue is the color of my veins before I slit them whole. Scarred. Blue is the color of the sky that I used to stare up at before it turned gray. Polluted.  Blue is the color that looks best against my pale, dead skin.  Alone. Blue is the color of my face after I […]
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