Back Files

Sean G. Meggeson https://unboundink.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/BackFilesUnboundInkvoiceonly.mp3 Coldness from the bathroom window. Tomorrow’s touch, a cruel smile, an arousal, a reckoning, a testimony, an alimony for suchness. Names like Leila, Laura &...

Gifts

Ronald J. Pelias My wife is so confident in her desires, so secure in her tastes, that getting her presents is simply a matter of paying attention, which turns me into the nervous soul who religiously saves receipts, since, despite my best efforts to know what she...

Hearing Cat in Deaf Lap

Paul Hostovsky I ask her whyshe speaks orally to her catinstead of signing to it in ASL,since ASL is her primarylanguage and where her allegiance lies.She replies in ASLthat it’s because the cat is hearing,and after over halfa lifetime of speech therapy...

Full Body Marriage

Nate Ritchie One body isn’t enough.In vain, I used to contort myself,hoping I might one day discover the secretto popping my arms from their socketslike a child twisting limbs off a doll.I dreamed of transcendent modification,of severing the unwanted parts of...

Veterinary

Elle DelSignore breaking in my leather seats, side of the road in the dead of summer,my world was smaller once, well-worn.i like to use my things until they give out beneath me,so can we give it a go? after months of imaginingour shoe soles have worn through in the...