Issue 18
Paradox
An exploration of the curiosities, absurdities, social tensions, and impossible what-ifs embedded in ordinary experience.
Look again
What happens when we look closely at the strangeness of daily life?
Paradox explores the curiosities, absurdities, social tensions, and impossible what-ifs embedded in ordinary experiences. Across poetry, prose, and experimental work, writers examine the bizarre logic of our shared reality, transforming contradiction into questions that reveal something true.
Inspired by the work of Lucky Jefferson’s Summer 2022 Literary Illustrators, Paradox asks what surfaces when the familiar is viewed from unexpected angles.
The contributors
Inside
Drag or tap a work to explore the Paradox. Click the link below to cross over into the full issue.
the american psalm
Eileen Porzuczek
Summer Solstice with Cell Service Outage
Elizabeth Galoozis
Vacationing With Teens
Dixie L. Partridge
Your AI Girlfriend
Skylar Camp
people mountain people sea
Felicia Tsao
The Bathers
Deanna L. Whitlow
burn mercury for three days
Yikuan Lu
I Don’t Want It To Be
Abbie Langmead
The Art of Going Home and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
JeFF Stumpo
A Kiss
Craig Evenson
Cooked
Matthew Berg
Burn Party
Kelly Nickie
Today
Holly Day
Slack Tide
R.H. Booker
CASSANDRA CURSWILTON CLAPS BACK AGAINST SISTER FOR CRAZY CLAIMS
Maximilian Tucker
the issue
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