Were/Whirr Enikő Deptuch Vághy is a writer, artist, and editor. She is currently a PhD student in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Additionally, she is the Founding…

Gills My son, my little frog, always took a bath with me when he was a baby; it seemed too awkward to bathe him in a sink or a hard plastic tub.  I would nurse him into a stupor and then rest him on ...

Teeth It sounded sweet when you told me you named all your teeth. I noted they were all women's names. Mila and Pilar were the showgirls up front; Sofi and Carmen doing yeoman's work of flattening, gr...

Bill Murray Ponders at Taco Bell The booth is turquoise, the faux wood peeling up a bit along the edges where years of sliding thighs has worn the surface, loosened the glue. This booth: his thinking ...

Issue 8: The Fall Issue From the Editors Kirsten Shu-ying Chen Friendship in the desertI arrive in the night, looking Max Schmidt WheelerHow to Become a Tree Silas Denver Melvinchildlikethat summer,bl...

Celebrity Donna Vorreyer is the author of three full-length poetry collections: To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013),...

Three Excerpts from Language Treaty You watch the Beanie Baby in front of you transform into a real bear then walk onto the patio. You’re on the second floor so when you look out & the bear’s vani...

by Donna Vorreyer It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives! ______________________________________________________________________ In the kitchen, I refine the alchemy of av...

Every Day I Look in the Mirror and Say Today Will Be Beautiful but today the sky was glowing yellow like flat Mountain Dewbecause of wildfires over 400 miles away. Glints of atomic orangeon cars, spla...