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Coming Home

Coming Home

Everyone is always ripped open here–it must be something in the air.

A beer bottle in front of a blurry skyline, the lights of the horizon faded to fuzzy dots.

Waiting For The Dealer

A woman standing outside holding her phone with both hands to text with her thumbs. Her face is outside of the frame.

bitch

A heavy traffic jam at night, the road illuminated by the brake lights of cars disppearing into the horizon.

Evacuation

A casual office party, with two groups of people standing and talking in front of a low lit table, scattered drinks around.

Wit's End

The black keys of a typewriter partially in frame against a stark white background.

Forfeiture of Nuance in the Rise of AI

Momo Twins

Momo Twins

Fiction

A casual office party, with two groups of people standing and talking in front of a low lit table, scattered drinks around.

Wit's End

Now we come to the present day: the age of the prefabricated punchline.

Two seasoned steaks frying in a cast iron skillet.

Whisper

A Life Well Slept

A Life Well Slept

A biege mixing bowl with a pouring lip, a mix of flour and eggs in it, with a whisk hanging out of it.

Nesting Bowls

A study of the common vampire

A study of the common vampire

The White Pages

The White Pages

Fear and Loathing Below the Mason-Dixon

Fear and Loathing Below the Mason-Dixon

Flash Fiction

A beer bottle in front of a blurry skyline, the lights of the horizon faded to fuzzy dots.

Waiting For The Dealer

Twenty years ago, I was a young boy who imagined himself to be a future rock star.

A heavy traffic jam at night, the road illuminated by the brake lights of cars disppearing into the horizon.

Evacuation

Momo Twins

Momo Twins

Eduardo

Eduardo

Through Some Coincidence

Through Some Coincidence

Black coffee in a mug sitting ontop of a folded hat on lap in the hands of a person wearing a biege sweater, sitting outside.

GAZE

Aging ornate copies of Homer's The Iliad and The Oddyssey piled up in a tidy stack on a shelf.

The Would-Be Thief Pauses to Read About Homer’s Iliad

Flash Nonfiction

A field of pink tulips, two out of focus bicycles standing upright in the background.

Band on the Run

Violence permeated most aspects of our lives.

Oklahoma, 1985

Oklahoma, 1985

Tell Me That One Again

Tell Me That One Again

Thank God

Thank God

Light Switch

Light Switch

Hot Streak

Hot Streak

The Egg Essay

The Egg Essay

Nonfiction

Coming Home

Coming Home

Everyone is always ripped open here–it must be something in the air.

A woman standing outside holding her phone with both hands to text with her thumbs. Her face is outside of the frame.

bitch

The black keys of a typewriter partially in frame against a stark white background.

Forfeiture of Nuance in the Rise of AI

A to Z

A to Z

Divorce-o-rama: Divorce as a Dark Ride

Divorce-o-rama: Divorce as a Dark Ride

I Went to Disney World and All I Got Was This Identity Crisis

I Went to Disney World and All I Got Was This Identity Crisis

Growing Up With a Low Rent Robin Williams

Growing Up With a Low Rent Robin Williams

Poetry

why

why

we all need

we all need

Gesticulating

Gesticulating

Bioluminescence

Bioluminescence

In which the alien from "Alien" plays basketball

In which the alien from "Alien" plays basketball

Grief

Grief

Lost Arts

Lost Arts

Nominated for Best of the Net 2025

POEM IN WHICH I READ TRANS

POEM IN WHICH I READ TRANS

CW: anti-trans violence

Death Works at Trader Joe's

Death Works at Trader Joe's

Shakespeare’s Cumslut 🥵😏

Shakespeare’s Cumslut 🥵😏

Three Poems on the Angel Gabriel

Three Poems on the Angel Gabriel

Is it still Dollar Pizza if it’s a Dollar Fifty?

Is it still Dollar Pizza if it’s a Dollar Fifty?

Teaching Anthony Bourdain to Eat Crawfish

Teaching Anthony Bourdain to Eat Crawfish

Holtz Children's Hospital, 2022

Holtz Children's Hospital, 2022

Laurel’s Tired of People

A Life Well Slept

Bioluminescence

In which the alien from "Alien" plays basketball

Through Some Coincidence

Grief

Trent Wants Your Best Sentence

GAZE

The Would-Be Thief Pauses to Read About Homer’s Iliad

Night Librarian in the Lower Stacks

The Power of Love

The Name Of The Buyer Was Not Disclosed

AJ Will Meet You at the Dive Bar

Tell Me That One Again

Thank God

Lost Arts

Troubles

Light Switch

Heather Wants Your Summer Lovin'

Rememberary

Midsummer Commoner

On Speaking

Stupid in Love

To You, In All Your Brilliance:

Ben Thinks You Should Leave

Santa

journal (take #4)

It Could Happen at Any Moment

Cancellation

Has This Ever Happened to You?

Inbal is Feeling Fabulous

A study of the common vampire

Fee Fee’s Curse

How to Travel to a Parallel Universe

The Guest Room

Jello Melon

nat raum presents the JAKE Biennale

The Filthy Bass at 0:44 on "...goingtohell" by Miguel

A Poem With a Painting And A Dead Poet, A Poem With a Hole

Saturn Devouring His PizzaChi

Bursting Bubbles and Other Myths

smash and grab

Ashley's 'Last Call' Call

Even the scarred can dream on New Year's Eve

every time i sigh i can’t help but think i’m getting a little taste of what it's like to die

November

First snow

Dead or Alive

Elena Wants to Get Stabbed By an Icicle

more follies and feathers

Waiting to Melt

Frost King

How To Break Up With A Toxic Loved One: a handy guide to being civilized instead of honest

The Ice Pick That is Made of Ice

Kaydance’s Seasonal (movie) Sestina Spectacular!!!!!!

The Years Without a Santa Claus

when i think of jason bourne i think of christmas

Sestina Written on the Way Home for Christmas

Katherine and Natalie are Anti-Time

Strangers

Crimes We Commit in the Future

To Cure a Thing

Role Play Game

november 20

Nominated for Best of the Net 2024

How to be a daughter

Why My Dissertation is Late

Postcolonial Takeout Discourse

The Couple in 5F

kylie jenner / gun baby poem

Nominated for Best of the Net 2023

Embodying Language

Under the Thumb of Patriarchy

The Widowmaker Tried to Kill Me, But Failed Miserably

the reason my insides are so swollen

(safe house)

From the JAKE Staff

a million gods would kill for this job

Modern Poetry

my father votes in favor of capital punishment

i realized i forgot to say i love you

My Father, the Comedian