Category: 2026 Summer – Dear ___
To my mother
Jun 1, 2026 | 2026 Summer - Dear ___
By E. Jade Enos I was five years old, sitting in my flowery pink car seat in our old Honda Pilot....
Read MoreEditor’s Note: 2026 Summer
Jun 1, 2026 | 2026 Summer - Dear ___, Editor's Note
This issue’s theme is “Dear ___.” Readers were asked: “For this issue, we’d like you to write a...
Read MoreCorazón de Cuetlaxochitl
Jun 1, 2026 | 2026 Summer - Dear ___, Poetry
By Angelina Leaños Could you hear it then—the queerness between me and my lover? Or did you gather us earlier in the car, her nose and mine embracing unlike amigas normales? I forget the fibers of your face when I introduced her...
Read MoreAROUND THE WORLD: Bi+ Equal: The Birth of the Pan-European Bi+ Umbrella Organization
Jun 1, 2026 | 2026 Summer - Dear ___, Around the World
By Barbara Oud It’s Christmas Eve 2023 and I’ve closed my laptop for a two-week holiday. I’d...
Read MoreLove Letter #1 (to Kami)
Jun 1, 2026 | 2026 Summer - Dear ___
By Tabs Kami, I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you Jesus fuck I fucking love you! Not only do I love you, but I do it with this frightening sort of totality; like the sincerest of solar eclipses, laden...
Read MoreWhat’s for Dinner?
Jun 1, 2026 | 2026 Summer - Dear ___
By Bernadette D’Auria Dear Mother, It is rare that a child can come out to their mother and...
Read MoreDear Torii
Jun 1, 2026 | 2026 Summer - Dear ___
By Tricia Knoll Your parents named you after gates at sacred shrines. In last night’s dream, I wrote you a letter, knowing you died fifty years ago of breast cancer. I mentioned new windows in the children’s museum where we...
Read MoreSeven Years
Jun 1, 2026 | 2026 Summer - Dear ___
By Charlie Roberts Dear You, Larger than life, you were raw and unapologetic. Your presence...
Read MoreTo Various Dead Friends, with Sincerity
Jun 1, 2026 | 2026 Summer - Dear ___
By Casey Lawrence Content advisory: death, suicide, grief Dear Jordan, If I ever write a...
Read Moreprincess of the sun
Jun 1, 2026 | 2026 Summer - Dear ___, Poetry
By Linda M. Crate i never really knew how to express how i felt for you or if i should, a part of...
Read MoreWailer
Jun 1, 2026 | 2026 Summer - Dear ___
By Durdaneh Malik Dear Chandramallika, I saw you reflected on the speeding windows of the subway...
Read MoreLove letter to my family
Jun 1, 2026 | 2026 Summer - Dear ___, Poetry
By Alyssa Walker This is Family. It is the blurred lines of true friendship and romance and pure unadulterated adoration burning love that spills from the basement of your essence entwines their stardust with yours rooted to...
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