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Issue VIII: The Human Experience

July 2024

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Who are you? Who are we? What is our purpose on this planet? Why do we think? Why do we act? Why do we form groups? Why do we do what we do? How do we define ourselves? How do we know the things we love? What shapes our personalities? What causes our thoughts? What drives our actions? What influences our relationships? What defines our lives?

What does it mean to be human?
 

Psychological, biological, philosophical, or fantastical - whatever perspective you choose to go with, this is the question we wanted answered. We asked our readers to tell us in their own words and art what humanity and humaneness meant to them. We asked them to explain to us the human experience, in all its wonders and scars, beauty and flaws.

CONTRIBUTORS

POETRY

Riddhi Iyer

To be Human (Staff Contribution)

Aurora Skye

Vessel

Ezra Mukami

Untitled

Jaiden Geolingo

Here, Grief

Angela Acosta

Approximation of Latin American

Diya Kapoor

the big thing that lives in the sky

Nirmit Mittal

To Gaza

Ruth Towne

Sweets to the Sweet

Lost in Translation

Ray Shubert

Purpose

Mia Jevtic

sentenced to your love

Rah Royal

the first twelve years of my life

Liv Gamble

How To Exist

Nina Stadermann

Reverie

Muskan Gupta

Poof and Gone

Milan Singh

Blur

AC. Sandglass

Just Talk

PROSE

I am no expert at chess

Adia Reynolds

8-bit-Arachnid

Blind Man's Bluff

Alice

Game Over

The Game of Life

Arianna Kanji

Inhumanity 101

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

Existential Espresso

Kaitlyn Abrielle McCormick

Eden

A Letter From Ireland

Zainab Ansari

older and bigger

The Numbers Game

Clara Salo

Meaning in Platonic Forms

What's next?

Julia Vellucci

Roses and Resilience

ART

The depths within

Desi Distel

Northside gang:)

The Lake Sleeps Under the Willow

Mitra Arianfar

Lingering Touch

PHOTOGRAPHY

Invisible China

FEATURED INDIE AUTHORS

The Deadliest Wish

Sera Amoroso

The Makria Cycle-Torsion

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