by TNSF | Apr 18, 2018 | Reviews, Vol. 1, Issue 23
Book Review Let’s No One Get Hurt Jon Pineda Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018, 256 pp., $26 In Jon Pineda’s deeply satisfying, often startling second novel, Let’s No One Get Hurt, fifteen-year-old Pearl is a girl long on suffering yet short on self-pity. She...
by TNSF | Apr 18, 2018 | Poems, Vol. 1, Issue 23
Eating an Orange Orange trees lean against frescoed walls, like sunbathers on the beach. Plucking one, the branch bows above my hand as I peak through leaves. It snaps back into place, leaving a small sun in my hands. My fingernails carve into the bumpy rind pulling...
by TNSF | Apr 18, 2018 | Visual Art, Vol. 1, Issue 23
My mother always told me to never let boys deflower me. For that reason, I have protected my flower from nectar, pollen, dirt, plucking, wind, and sun. Protecting my flower resulted in a perfectly constructed rose with scratches tearing through the stem, a punishment...