Matty Byloos 6/25/15 Matty Byloos 6/25/15

Intruders by Steve Patterson

“Standing in the cold. Seeing his family as a stranger would.”

Matty Byloos 6/24/15 Matty Byloos 6/24/15

Deathwish 019: Jane

“we are all of us, once we’ve drawn first breath, dying”

Matty Byloos 6/15/15 Matty Byloos 6/15/15

First Snow by Kristen MacKenzie

“Yesterday, I wasn’t sure I could be your mom anymore”

Matty Byloos 6/10/15 Matty Byloos 6/10/15

Deathwish 018: Asha

“hiss and wheeze then silent for four years until”

Fiona George 6/9/15 Fiona George 6/9/15

In This Body: Dear Portland (as if to a Lover)

“Home in a way geography does not understand”

Staff 6/8/15 Staff 6/8/15

The Combo by Matthew Robinson

“These men are fucking soft. The girls are all saying yes”

Matty Byloos 6/3/15 Matty Byloos 6/3/15

Brian’s Lies by Christy George

“A teenaged soldier pointed his rifle at us just after we passed a steaming volcano”

Carrie Ivy 5/28/15 Carrie Ivy 5/28/15

Fathers, Fugitives, by Santi Elijah Holley

“he couldn’t bear to return to jail for unpaid child support”

Matty Byloos 5/27/15 Matty Byloos 5/27/15

Deathwish 017: Sara

“my father decided to end his life, in a Best Western motel off the highway”

Staff 5/25/15 Staff 5/25/15

Response: Skin

“remember when we were roommates of Despair?”

Matty Byloos 5/20/15 Matty Byloos 5/20/15

Hank and the Midnighters by Brian Reid

“the only way to get out of the maze was to keep on turning farther to the right”

Lady Jonathan 5/15/15 Lady Jonathan 5/15/15

Lady Jonathan Tells All, #19

“My fervent love for the family jewels does not mean”

Matty Byloos 5/14/15 Matty Byloos 5/14/15

Deathwish 017: Heather

“He would die soon if I didn’t get him out.”

Lady Jonathan 5/12/15 Lady Jonathan 5/12/15

Lady Jonathan Tells All, #17

“women who want me to participate in some rape fantasy role”

Fiona George 5/12/15 Fiona George 5/12/15

In This Body: Laws of Consent

“just a feeling of not knowing what just happened to me”

Staff 5/9/15 Staff 5/9/15

Open Letter: Disclosure and Conjurance, by Tom Spanbauer

“we must look inward at the wilderness”

Staff 5/8/15 Staff 5/8/15

Letter: Mumbai, A Hate Story, by Veena Hari

“It will make you want what you do not want and fool you into loving it”

Staff 5/6/15 Staff 5/6/15

Sex Stories: Eve by Monet Thomas

“he kind of slithered out of his jeans”

Colin Farstad 5/4/15 Colin Farstad 5/4/15

Snakes and Tails by Bradley K. Rosen

“I contracted the virus back when I was a casual IV drug user”

Matty Byloos 4/30/15 Matty Byloos 4/30/15

Deathwish 016: Robin

“If you are like me, and sometimes you get sad”