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I’m writing this in the in-between – the quiet days before I’m admitted to the hospital for observation and treatment. There’s a date on the calendar, circled like a small horizon. I’m preparing, coun...

Vol. 8, Issue 1 of AZE focuses on the theme of resilience.

Submit by November 15th, 2025.

i. It begins like this: We go in circles at the ice rink, racing — I slip away, elusion on the scratched surface, blades shredding ice into a stop . He says I'm the coldest bitch he's ever me...

When people picture loneliness, they tend to imagine something dramatic (or cinematic): crying in the dark, empty rooms echoing with regret. But for me, loneliness is quieter than that. It’s logistica...

Vol. 7, Issue 4 of AZE focuses on the theme of resilience.

Vol. 7, Issue 4 of AZE focuses on the theme of resilience.

Submit by July 15th, 2025.

I am thirteen years old, confident in my close friendship of two years, and suddenly appreciating it in a new light. I bound around the downstairs circuit of my house, thinking, I love her! I love he...

But what if both perspectives meet somewhere in the middle? What if they weren’t straight, and what if they weren’t gay? What if they were homoromantic, even asexual?

creating a journal for ace, aro, and agender writers and artists

When I was taken, it was supposed to be a compliment.

Self-love entails acceptance and compassion towards yourself: you begin to acknowledge that your experiences are valid and important.

Without boundaries, without expectations, without conformity. 

Poetry by Terlona Knife.

So for now, I’ll walk that tightrope of compromise, walk, and fall and fall again until I have my footing.

My confrontation with gender detachment was the first time that I was able to put into words the relationship I have to my gender.

When I was taken, it was supposed to be a compliment.

I am proud to be asexual, and proud I stood by it even when I could tell it wore on my partner.

He holds me so tight I might compress back into stardust.

Mom, dad? I don’t think I’m ever going to find love.  Is it because you don’t love each other? Is it because you don’t love me? Or, maybe, it’s the other way around. Is it because I am unloving ...

For the aces who are playing the dating game and are dealing with your fair share of frustrations, here are some simple affirmations:

This is not your world. This is not my world. Nobody’s heard of sex here. Why would they?

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I don't know why I agreed to this. Skinny dipping at night. Jumping into a body of water naked at night. Who do I think I am? Some white girl in a coming-of-age film? 

I decided I would pursue medical transitioning after I walked for a few months along Lake Michigan’s shores at sunrise and sunset.

creating a journal for ace, aro, and agender writers and artists

So you’ve discovered you’ve got a black hole where your heart should be.

Submit by July 15th, 2025.