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 handle my tarantulas like they will bite me. At any moment tear fangs into my flesh slap tendons against bone like weathered rubber bands stretched too thin and think before they let go. I handle my tarantulas on the condition that they will bite me. Allowing their trust in me to develop independent of […]
My uncle saw the world from the bridge of an oil tanker he didn’t send postcards he lived them returning with fistfuls of stories real life fantasies how he fought and caught swordfish saw the night seas pulse and glow a bio-luminescent time he handed me the kite not an ordinary kite but one from […]
She was in good form on the phone now that she had gotten the heat back into her the power having been cut for over five hours the first hour had been fine but she felt the cold creep in under the doors through the keyholes during the second by the third she had put […]
Last night I went to bed to the voice of Bolaño, Romantic as ever. He said even mediocre writers felt the “sombra del ecstasis” of Rimbaud. What a skinny young degenerate king, hair spiking all the way into our hearts like blades! My phone buzzed out a name I haven’t said since I was 17. […]
for Ryan Jarman What Wordsworth did not know (and it’s not his fault) is who cares about the music of the howling wind, that sublime and desperate tenor mixing with the soprano of broken branches and birdsong in the brazen breeze? Tonight, I’m already annoyed. I’ve had two glasses of rosé, and I’m in the […]
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