The Ravine

The sound of a wasp near her ear made Julia startle, upsetting her porcelain teacup. The cup produced a loud clattering noise against its saucer. Some hot liquid spilled onto her hand and the broad wooden table….

Chin-Sun Lee’s stories and essays have appeared in SLICE, Shadowbox Magazine, Art Faccia, and SLAB. She is a contributor to the anthology Women In Clothes (Blue Rider Press/Penguin 2014), edited by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Shapton. She collaborated and performed in the video “Spinning World” by the art/ literary/rock band The Size Queens (also featured in Medium Cool at The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review in November 2012), which premiered on PANK’s blog website on October 3, 2014 pankmagazine.com.

INTERVIEW | Amber Dawn

Described as brilliantly gorgeous and a much-needed offering, Amber Dawn brings a poetic voice to her socially-aware writing. Traversing issues such as sex work and queer sexuality, feminism and class, as well as identity and literature, Dawn brings attention to pressing social concerns in an accessible and literary way. Here, Dawn discusses writing as a way of healing, …

Squatters

BY Andrés Carlstein | When I was sixteen my family made the eleven-hour flight to Argentina to spend a month visiting uncle Chocho and his family. My mother could hardly afford to take us,…