Movable Type Issue No. 16: Chloe Wong
Chloe Wong The Old Lie Reverse Golden Shovel after Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” You find me in the garden—cradle-shot, mud-hot, hard-begging. This story would never end with Mother wringing blood from a school dress, if not for the body you stand in the...
Movable Type Issue No. 16: Ellen Zhang
Ellen Zhang in some languages there is no capitalizationbecause every word is something in of itselfwith a weight carrying it forward, buoyingonto the shore, knowing that it will find land somehow, someway. in mandarin, the lulling voice ofmy mother cradled my...
Movable Type Issue No. 16: Fairouz Bsharat
Fairouz Bsharat sing psalms to the empty, open palms and fill them put Your palms together and pray for the atheist that lay still on the white sheets in a stale-smelling sterile hospital bed They might not believe in Your God But all You can do is Hope Believe Hope...
Movable Type Issue No. 16: Sanchita Sahoo
Sanchita Sahoo I Still Call Him Orissa The first step on the staircase. My long white skirt dragged behind in a haste. Dusty books, artifacts, that flower vase from Cuba. Aja’s ghost sitting in the library sips tea and chews a betel leaf, tracing Elliot’s land of...
Movable Type Issue No. 16: Elane Kim
Elane Kim The Good Daughter based on the Korean myth of Princess Bari / after Nancy Huang This is how my grandmother tells it: This is a story about birth, the act of slipping into rivers and bad luck streaming into daughterhood. A way of drowning when...
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