Late summer, hot heat, I navigate my wants, my
skincare, SPFs. It is Real Feel 114 degrees
and I cannot seem to get a fucking grip. My own
mother’s hands, he...
Mountain Dew poured over
beautiful, crackling ice. Outside:
fog fog fog. Rain, sleet for days.
The valley is saturated, can take no more,
and I forget wha...
Zoe Contros Kearl is a queer writer and editor raised in Texas and based in Vermont. Writing appears in or is forthcoming from Action Books Blog, Be About It, Entropy Magazine, HAD, Kenyon Review, Neutral Spaces, Rejection Letters, The Quarterless Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. ZCK currently serves as nonfiction editor for American Chordata Magazine and holds an MFA from Columbia University.