Tag: Issue 14

  • Fifteen

    By the time I was fifteen, I was a regular in a bar. Which, back then, wasn’t all that unusual. It was the late-60s, we lived in Queens, and the bartender was a barmaid, a novelty at the time. Gracie. Black spit-curls, white boots, black miniskirt, white scoop-neck blouse. She called me Hon. She called…

  • War Babies

    SYNOPSIS JANICE meets KEUM LEE in a zoom meeting, after discovering through DNA and Ancestor.com that they are half-sisters, and that her father had a Korean family when he was in the Korean War in the 50’s.    They compare stories and find that they had very different fathers, though he was the same man.   Can…

  • Mattress Magic Empire

    Cast of Characters KAY       Mattress Magic Empire receptionist, can be played by any actor LEE       Mattress Magic Empire customer, can be played by any actor   Scene LEE’s disheveled bedroom and KAY’s office.   Time The present or close to it.   Notes This play is written to be presentable on livestream or in person.…

  • Rae Hoffman Jager

    Rae Hoffman Jager is the author of One Throne (2017). Her most recent manuscript, American Bitch, was a semi-finalist with Sundress Press and Birdcoat Quarterly. Rae’s poetry has appeared most recently in Juke Joint. She has work forthcoming in The Moth and New York Quarterly. Her work has been described as rambunctious, urgent, funny, and…

  • Eric Braman

    Eric Braman (they/them) is a playwright, poet, and storyteller based in Springfield, Oregon. They were raised in the Midwest where a tenacity for niceties and a deep connection to nature was discovered. Since coming out as Queer their art has shifted to incorporate explorations of masculinities, mental health, and Queer possibility. Their work has been published in…

  • Eric Braman

    Eric Braman (they/them) is a playwright, poet, and storyteller based in Springfield, Oregon. They were raised in the Midwest where a tenacity for niceties and a deep connection to nature was discovered. Since coming out as Queer their art has shifted to incorporate explorations of masculinities, mental health, and Queer possibility. Their work has been published in…