Main Squeeze Literary JournalWe are Southern Oregon University's student-run literary magazine organized by Creative Writing students! For the 2024 issue, we are looking for works of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and visual art. Submit today!
I was sitting in the colorless cab of an Allegiant airplane flying to Los Angeles when I saw something in the row of gray seats across from me that, in this setting at least, should have been impossible: a plump woman with blonde hair parted down the middle and a straw hat was holding an […]
And I was kind of thinking we actually hadn’t as my arm rode the bouncing rake back up. That it’d just fly away unbothered. And it kinda looked like it would the way it stared at us for a moment before suddenly falling apart on my back porch like its stitching had just given out. […]
M.R. Wiard spends most of their time drinking apple cider and watching confusing television shows. They are currently a student at Southern Oregon University.
Armed with the decent and reputable gingham, the Jester skips pilates to visit his religious friends. He stops along the way to catch his breath, wonders why he even goes to pilates when he still can’t make it up a grassy knoll without sucking in air like a broken vacuum. At the top of the […]
five o’clock shadow gradstudents drink beer like water. *tink* their glassestogether like—two girlsstanding under theprison-like archwayoutside of the high school one’s mask below her chin, the other’s hanging off of her fingers, up in a sign of peace as they tip theirheads together, leaninginto the phone camera’sview. unaware that thenext day the people whorun their […]
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