Magazine

Author	Title	Content Warnings	Type	Preview
A.C. Gerhard	daily rituals	None	Poetry	"We've started purifying ourselves with salt, my friends and I..."
A.K. Afferez	on reading thoreau	Assault/Abuse/Violence	Poetry	"Midtrail the carcass of a rabbit..."
Ada Limón	wonder woman	AbleismSubstance Use	Poetry	"Standing at the swell of the muddy Mississippi..."
Aditi Nagrath	colossal light	None	Poetry	"Truth be told, the endless spark..."
Aditi Nagrath	human heart, or else	None	Poetry	"the animal harsh wild unforgiving..."
Aditi Nagrath	skirts, from above	Sexual ContentAssault/Abuse/Violence	Poetry	"I. A lift and a fall..."
Alex Haagaard	Review of Bad Ideas\Chemicals	Assault/Abuse/ViolenceSubstance UsePTSD/Mental IllnessBody HorrorDeath/Suicide	Commentary/Review	Bad Ideas\Chemicals is a book for aliens....
Alexis Smithers	One Act Play In Which We Review Dalton Day's Exit, Pursued	None	Commentary/Review	[ME sits in the middle of the high school stage. The house lights are off and there is a dim light coming from the production shop behind the curtain.]...
Alexis Smithers	Review of Mannish Tongues	None	Commentary/Review	jayy dodd's full-length poetry book, Mannish Tongues (Platypus Press, 2017), undoes the contradiction of violence and soft...
Alison Kronstadt	all the muses I've been	None	Poetry	"What a terrible, messy thing to be given a heart..."
Alison Kronstadt	bred in captivity	Assault/Abuse/Violence	Poetry	"Mantis religiosa..."
Alison Kronstadt	part iii — stress // arousal	PTSD/Mental Illness	Poetry	"Trauma-related arousal and reactivity that began or worsened after the trauma, in the following way(s):..."
Bei Jei Si	little lies	Assault/Abuse/ViolenceSexual Content	Poetry	"I remember the lies I was told as a child..."
Bei Jei Si	to be a monster	Assault/Abuse/ViolenceSexual Content	Poetry	"I. Tethered Spinal Cord Syndrome:..."
Brianna Albers	A Letter from the Editor-in-Chief	None	Editor's Note	Monsters, it’s been a while!
Brianna Albers	Apophasis	None	Playlist	KNOWLEDGE THROUGH NEGATION; THE REVELATION OF THE UNREVEALABLE...
Brianna Albers	Blurred Out	None	Playlist	The fifth installment of our column, "Mixes from the Editor."...
Brianna Albers	Caved-In	None	Playlist	YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY WALLS. THERE IS NO LIGHT, EXCEPT AT THE END OF IT ALL. CRAWL OUT OF THE ABYSS AND RECOIL AGAINST THE SUN'S RAYS UNTIL YOU HAVE IT IN YOU TO BASK, TO SOAK, TO BREATHE...
Brianna Albers	editor's note	None	Editor's Note	"Dearest Monsters, To say I am proud to gift this, Apotheosis, to you, is an understatement; ..."
Brianna Albers	Idyll	None	Playlist	The sixth installment of our column, "Mixes from the Editor." ...
Briar Pronschinske	10 cent boots	None	Poetry	"At night, I dream of girls with 10 cent boots:..."
Bronwyn Valentine	movements of the uncontrollable body part one	None	Art	"When I walk the uncontrollable body there is no joy unless I walk alone for the body alone is not..."
Cade Leebron	about the decorations	Assault/Abuse/ViolenceSexual Content	Prose	"In the city of frost and wine we buy because it has a first name, we’ve found our way to the warehouse version of the famous bakery..."
Cade Leebron	spelling bee poem	None	Poetry	turpitude / teratology / credo
Cade Leebron	the medical model enters the scene	Ableism	Poetry	"I’m naming this disease before other..."
Caroline Mao	Review of Millicent	Death/SuicideChildhood TraumaPTSD/Mental Illness	Commentary/Review	Mariel Fechik’s new chapbook, Millicent, is a lyrical work which explores several central themes, including the speaker’s family (particularly the maternal side) and their Jewish identity...
Caroline Mao	The Darkness in Children's Literature	None	Commentary/Review	I often introduce myself as “Caroline from North Carolina,” a simple device that helps people remember both my name and where I’m from...
Chelsea Brown	Drought	None	Poetry	The sun pressed...
Chelsea Brown	Prometheus, Sisyphus, and us	None	Poetry	“I am not a god: my myths...”
Cosi Nayovitz	thirst	Assault/Abuse/ViolenceSexual ContentHospitalization	Prose	"Last she heard, someone would be coming for her any minute..."
Courtney Felle	After Rachel Shaw-Rosenbaum	Death/SuicideAbleism	Poetry	Yale University Statement...
Courtney Felle	Late Identification	AbleismOppression	Poetry	thursday. tyler growled & meowed & pawed the ground under our desks...
Courtney Felle	The Legal Model Enters The Scene	AbleismOppression	Poetry	I forget the term brain fog & tell you my brain has bad weather...
Cristina Deptula	Interview with Leticia Escalera on her upcoming memoir "A Journey to Begin in Life"	None	Interview	Leticia Escalera is an independent living skills trainer, who has worked with the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley and Disability Rights Advocate - California and has learning disabilities herself...
Dean Symmonds	mothers like me	PTSD/Mental IllnessDeath/Suicide	Poetry	"don't live / very long. we can't resist / the oven rattling..."
Dean Symmonds	my body to my brain	AbleismAssault/Abuse/Violence	Poetry	"when god forced the pit of you behind my teeth,..."
Dean Symmonds	my brain to my body	AbleismAssault/Abuse/ViolenceBody Horror	Poetry	"banish me. drain my blood-water..."
E. Kristen Anderson	dried up	Ableism	Poetry	When I consider the facts I’m rendered horizontal, head down
E. Kristin Anderson	my mind on the gap	None	Poetry	"I’ve spent this year..."
E. Kristin Anderson	now you know what’s in me	None	Poetry	"I’ve long accepted that there’s no such thing as rewinding—"
Effie Benveniste	corpus (or, somewhere the body)	None	Poetry	"The body is heavy as any unwanted thing..."
Elisa Vita	feast of mabon	None	Art	//
Elizabeth Ruth Deyro	A Borderline's Survival Kit	AbleismSubstance UsePTSD/Mental IllnessBody Horror	Prose	Ironically, if you want to stay alive, sometimes you have to jump off the edge...
Elliot Voorhees	un/body	None	Poetry	"I one morning from un/settling dreams..."
Emily Corwin	Interview with Jill Khoury	None	Interview	Rogue Agent is a journal of "embodied poetry and art," a journal that "inhabits the body" in all its viscera, and I wonder what fuels you as an editor. What are you seeking to curate in Rogue Agent?...
Emily Gillespie	canadian millenial dream pen	None	Poetry	"Handfuls and handfuls of cheap free pens, you know the kind I’m talking about right?"
Emily Yin	Interview with Topaz Winters	None	Interview	Emily Yin: To start, can you tell us a bit about your disabilities?
George Freek	On My 60th Birthday	None	Poetry	(After Tu Fu) I don’t get out of bed.
George Freek	Uneasy Night	None	Poetry	(After Li Po) I’m weary of looking at snow,
Grace LaPointe	Ambulatory: How "The Little Mermaid" Shaped My Self-Image With Cerebral Palsy	AbleismBody HorrorDeath/Suicide	Commentary/Review	Like many other little girls born in 1989, the year that The Little Mermaid was released, I was obsessed with Ariel...
Grace Moloney	Dial Tone	None	Poetry	“It was that year I subsisted”
Grace Moloney	I'll Bite The Hands That Feed Me	None	Poetry	My most piercing memories are those that can be found scattered around waiting rooms and surgery theatres...
Grace Moloney	Operating Theatre	None	Poetry	I am reaching into myself, never carefully enough, I
Gretchen Gales	Rating Suggested Cures for My Various Mental and Chronic Conditions	None	Prose	Anyone with any kind of chronic health problems gets tons of advice, solicited or otherwise. Most of the time otherwise..
Heather Taylor Johnson	your body is a casino	None	Poetry	"Feel that gnaw? Your body’s sweet to the dark vermin today,..."
Hel Robin Gurney	washed up	None	Poetry	"What the old witch didn't tell you,..."
Inés Ixierda	glamour shot/fasciotomy self portrait	Body Horror	Art	//
Jack	Hiraeth	None	Poetry	I am running down claustrophobic corridors, all flickering shadows, gunmetal grey sharp-angled walls and low ceilings...
Jasmine Sierra	erased poem #2	Assault/Abuse/Violence	Poetry	"God was in the room..."
Jenna Neece	anatomical definitions of a broken body	Body Horror	Poetry	"Arms: limbs of the upper body..."
Jennie DuGuay	numb is a feeling: embodying a body of pain	PTSD/Mental IllnessDeath/Suicide	Prose	"1. TESTIMONY: HOW THE MONSTER CAME TO BE (TOLD IN ITS OWN WORDS)..."
Jennifer Bradpiece	one through ten	None	Poetry	"Doctor,..."
Jesse Rice-Evans	molting	None	Prose	"I wake up unable to remember what my hands felt like when they could fold into soft shells;..."
Jesse Rice-Evans	rain, glitter, rain	None	Poetry	"You kept looking at me like you wanted to touch me..."
Jesse Rice-Evans	wolf moon	None	Poetry	"Everything smelled like smoke: the black lab, the incense-soaked tapestries, her hands, ice water..."
Joanna C. Valente	their hell	None	Poetry	"Lucifer peeled her..."
Johanna Hedva	sick woman theory: an interview	Oppression	Interview	"History has equated disability (or sickness, in the language of Sick Woman Theory: the absence of wellness) with monstrosity..."
Joy Xie	I am	None	Art	//
Julian Van Horne	Beyond "Free the Nipple"	None	Commentary/Review	Instagram is home to more than a billion users worldwide...
Juliana Freire	Blue Face	None	Poetry	a blue light shines on your face. it's like that...
Juliana Freire	In The Middle of Me	None	Poetry	“I keep feeling this emptiness…”
Juliana Freire	Overgrowing Biology	None	Poetry	“1. calligraphy notebooks and perfectly fitted clothes...”
Juliana Freire	The Devil Is Kind	None	Poetry
Kala Godin	A Monster Finds Herself: How Witchcraft and Monsters Came To Be	None	Prose	I know the word “monster” well. In middle grade and high school, I researched topics like mythology, witchcraft, and folklore. In fact, I researched them so thoroughly and so openly, that a rumor had spread that I was a witch...
Kala Godin	The Wild Woman: The Beginning	None	Prose	We know them as Wild Women, Healers and Wise women, Queens, goddesses...
Kala Godin	Wild Women Series: Medusa	None	Prose	Today, we focus on the wild woman who we know as Medusa...
Kala Godin	Wild Women Series: Sedna	None	Prose	For June we look to the Inuit goddess Sedna...
Kamila Rina	access intimacy	Assault/Abuse/ViolenceSexual Content	Poetry	"How to talk to a new lover about PTSD. About chronic..."
Kamila Rina	capes	Ableism	Poetry	"It’s Tuesday night, and I wait for the phone to ring. Wait to hear..."
Kamila Rina	fruit of the earth	Sexual ContentAssault/Abuse/Violence	Poetry	"Years after I choked on the rubbery sex flesh..."
Kara Dorris	ars poetica with physical therapist	None	Poetry	"Last night, a blood moon, a sleepless..."
Kara Dorris	self-portrait as wikipedia entry	Substance UseDeath/SuicideAssault/Abuse/Violence	Prose	"Kara Dorris was born in Fort Worth, Texas at the ass-end of 1980, & the beginning of big bangs, shoulder pads, & leg warmers..."
Kara Dorris	setting the table	Ableism	Poetry	"The wolves are snarling today, so I set the table slowly."
Kat Riddell	the lucky ones	None	Poetry	"The lucky girls grow up into..."
Kate Horowitz	ketoconazole	None	Poetry	"Twilight, feeling..."
Kerrie C. Byrne	wraith	Assault/Abuse/ViolenceDeath/Suicide	Poetry	"You cut too hard on my throat muscles:..."
Kiki Nicole	gorge	None	Poetry	"I am a femme/ sticky..."
Kitlyn Varnam	Household Spirit	None	Prose	I feel like clutter, too much in the room...
Kitlyn Varnam	Lunar Ravings	Ableism	Poetry	I keep coming up with new ideas...
Kitlyn Varnam	Not Haunting	None	Poetry	“Prove this is not a haunting...”
Kitlyn Varnam	Obedience	None	Poetry	“Pain has become a possessing spirit...”
Kitlyn Varnam	White Knight IV	None	Poetry	“I feel like a fairy tale trope...”
Kristen Tollan	editor's note	None	Editor's Note	"Dearest Monsters,..."
Kristen Tollan	Pounds of Flesh	Death/SuicidePTSD/Mental IllnessBody Horror	Poetry	I think I was born as 3.3 pounds of flesh to sacrifice to Satan...
L. Munir	An Open Letter to Neurotypicals	Death/Suicide	Commentary/Review	Don't be scared of the 's' word....
L. Munir	Interview with Lexie Bean, Author of Much-Needed Novel, "The Ship We Built"	None	Interview	L. Munir: Hiya, hope you are keeping safe and healthy. To start off, congratulations, not just on the debut novel, but to release such a poignant sentiment at such polarizing times...
L. Munir	Lazarus	None	Poetry	on my good days, i liken myself to a water faucet:...
L. Munir	Words as Weapons (Sharper Than Knives)	None	Poetry	disappointed. disinterested. disengaged. distrust. discarded. disgrace...
L.C. Elliot	through history, changeling	Childhood TraumaBody Horror	Prose	"I will write you back to life, draw you like mould from a drywall and paint over the cracks until no-one but us will be able to see the changes..."
L.R. Bird	in which I try to fire my body but before I can, my body puts in its two weeks	Assault/Abuse/Violence	Poetry	"The disease resists diagnosis and instead begs..."
L.R. Bird	new jersey devil vignettes i-v	Assault/Abuse/Violence	Prose	"I. The New Jersey Devil Buys A Hot-Pink Bike:..."
Lannie Stabile	the first lie	None	Poetry	"When my coworker asks, “How are you?”..."
Lillian Hochwender	bugonia	Body Horror	Poetry	"In my summer breath..."
Limor Ashkenazy	a reflection	None	Art	//
Liv Mammone	a crip is	AbleismOppression	Poetry	"A crip is a bitch..."
Liv Mammone	melusine on a williamsburg sunday	Body Horror	Poetry	"Violet droplets fall as she lifts a virescent question mark ..."
Lydia A. Cyrus	draw blood	Assault/Abuse/Violence	Poetry	"I’ll tell you the truth..."
Lydia Havens	the red:	None	Poetry	"a disease, a name..."
Lydia X.Z. Brown	pedestal is just another word for grave and mine is already projected to be an early death	AbleismAssault/Abuse/Violence	Poetry	"Do not put me on a pedestal..."
Lynn Guttman	habitat	None	Art	//
Lynn Guttman	natural woman	None	Art	//
Lynn Guttman	passages	None	Art	//
Lynne Schmidt	on how dogs choose their people	None	Poetry	"The day he proclaims,..."
M. Wilder	gutters	PTSD/Mental IllnessBody Horror	Poetry	"come collect memories..."
M. Wilder	tired girl howls, act three	Assault/Abuse/ViolenceSexual ContentSubstance Use	Poetry	"Every day my understudy sits up in my bed and walks across the carpet, rehearsing her lines..."
Madison Bertenshaw	burqueños	Sexual content	Poetry	"What do you write about?"
Marissa Spear	my litany of pleasure for a body in pain	Sexual content	Poetry	"As a scientist, a lapsed Catholic, and a writer I know I inhabit a multitude of contradictions..."
Marlena Chertock	spider slayer	None	Prose	"A ghostwhite spider haunts Zev..."
Max Perry	apple trees	Childhood Trauma	Poetry	"They say if you swallow apple seeds..."
Max Perry	living ghosts	Death/Suicide	Poetry	"This is a poem about my dead friend:..."
Meesh Montoya	Elegy for Avon Beyond Color Lipstick in Beige Shimmer, Discontinued	Body Negativity	Poetry	Creamy and with that clean grandmother smell…
Megan Leonard	queen elsa remembers something	PTSD/Mental IllnessDisordered Eating	Poetry	"there are flowers on the hospital gowns..."
Megan Leonard	this cold day	Ableism	Poetry	"and if I let my baby daughter touch a red scarf that will be her blood..."
Megan Nicole R. Wildhood	subject	None	Prose	"Submitted June 4, [redacted], for [redacted] (supervisor) approval and signature..."
Michaela Mayer	Die Gar Traurige	Death/Suicide	Poetry	In the crumbling storybook of morality tales,
Natalie E. Illum	some love notes on ableism	Ableism	Poetry	"Most first dates tell me I am not..."
Ocean	wheelchair	None	Poetry	"End over end..."
Petra Kuppers	women's pool	None	Prose	"Leg angle the hard crease between the thigh bone..."
Rachel Stewart	disappearing acts	Body Negativity	Poetry	"Winter has crept in two months late..."
Rebecca Cross	advice for the marvel	Assault/Abuse/Violence	Poetry	"First, know they will take your hair, your nails, maybe your hands..."
Rebecca Cross	I am the answer to the question, what makes a body wrong?	None	Poetry	"What do you make of me, father?..."
Rebecca Cross	meeting the myth	Sexual ContentAssault/Abuse/ViolenceBody Horror	Poetry	"What a draw!—The Modern Medusa..."
Rebecca Cross	wednesday's child	Birth Trauma	Poetry	"As for giving birth, I know only what my mother told me..."
Riley Dalca	glioblastoma	None	Art	//
Rita Maria Martinez	plastic woman	None	Poetry	"On the osteopath’s table my contours expand..."
Rita Maria Martinez	the greatest american hero	None	Poetry	"Life was a comedy of errors the year after surgery..."
Rita Maria Martinez	the migraineur addresses dr. honeydew and beaker	None	Poetry	"Dr. Honeydew, I wanna be like you,..."
Rita Maria Martinez	the migraineur watches x-men apocalypse	None	Poetry	"My younger self became adept at sleight of hand."
RoAnna Sylver	a spell exorcise your favourite ghost	None	Poetry	"Stretch one rope thin as an oily fingerprint...."
Robin M. Eames	the fall	None	Poetry	"i am defeated by a cat's yawn..."
Rosamund Taylor	changeling	None	Poetry	"The human parents, afraid to say I am wrong,..."
Rosamund Taylor	ingredients for a fairytale	None	Poetry	"In the story..."
Sarah Cavar	when trans goes out of style	None	Poetry	"I’ll have no need to fear..."
Sarah Duncan	In Defense of The Black Zoom Screen Square	None	Commentary/Review	As a child, I could never sit still at my desk in school...
Sarah Duncan	Literally Impossible to Be Our Friend: Me, Myself, and the OCD-Coding of Chidi Anagonye from The Good Place	None	Commentary/Review	Mostly, I remember looking up. I was eleven years old, visiting my grandmother in Delaware, and I couldn’t sleep...
Sarah Duncan	The Revolution Starts with Trust: A Refutation of BBC’s short film, Sickness and Lies	Ableism	Commentary/Review	“I considered not watching the film...”
Sarah Duncan	“It’s All the Same Movie”: Code of the Freaks Cracks Hollywood’s Ableist Legacy Wide Open	AbleismAssault/Abuse/ViolenceSexual ContentPTSD/Mental IllnessHospitalization	Commentary/Review	“I’m having a hard time writing this review,” I told my partner on the phone...
Sarah Jewell	sick	Oppression	Poetry	"The first day, I wore blue pajamas..."
Sarah Marsh	Gnash	Assault/Abuse/Violence	Poetry	dogs tied up, wired in, jaws, licking chops, parched by the wide desert, by knowing, knowing like tired Eve...
Sarah-Ann Loreth	how we cope	Assault/Abuse/ViolenceBody Horror	Art	//
Shannon Connor Winward	...flinch	Assault/Abuse/Violence	Poetry	"I drag it around with me..."
Sia Lightwood	Monster		Poetry
Sierra Ventura	stop eating my shit	Body HorrorDeath/Suicide	Poetry	"i froze a pomelo to throw through your window..."
Sophia Cannizzaro	lose your inhibitions	Substance Use	Poetry	"when i smoke weed i have the worst panic attacks of my life..."
Stephanie Athena Valente	Cinema Stills	None	Poetry	a hand with long red nails, reaching
Stephanie Athena Valente	Ginger Beer Brunette	None	Poetry	let’s go to bed. you discussing other lives and me, just listening
Stephanie Harper	I Unstop Myself	None	Poetry	“The puffed-up mockingbird examines me from a naked redbud branch…”
Stephanie Stein	Disappearances	Assault/Abuse/ViolenceAbleismDeath/Suicide	Poetry	On July 26, 2016, around 2 am, a former employee broke into a home for people with disabilities in Sagamihara, Japan...
Topaz Winters	serenade to surrender	None	Poetry	"Imagine: the sea seething into the same bone-ridden world..."
torrin a. greathouse	I don't mean to be rude	Ableism	Poetry	"but why do you walk with that cane?..."
torrin a. greathouse	sideshow	AbleismDeath/Suicide	Poetry	"when you run into an old friend / for the first time in years /..."
Uma Dwivedi	frankenstein’s monster and michelangelo’s angel	None	Poetry	"A CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO TRANS FIGURES..."
Vittoria Lion	after sodom burned (or, from the prehistory of x-ray astronomy)	Death/SuicideBody Horror	Prose	"Paranoia is the sensation of being in two places at once, a particle and a wave..."
Xuan Nyugen	Divination, Art Creation, and Schizophrenia: A Personal Essay On Craft	None	Prose	There comes a time when you have no choice but to turn towards divination as a way of understanding the world for certain folks...
Xuan Nyugen	where my limbs hung far and fair	None	Poetry	"1. a golden blaze of hair roars down my wicked spine. i am spitfire keo"
Yiyi	you can write this for me, too	None	Poetry	"in jakarta i barely remember my grandfather’s house..."
Zara Williams	Bog Bodies	Death/SuicideBody HorrorAssault/Abuse/Violence	Poetry	we rise from the bog, skin wet and squelching...
Zara Williams	Checking In	None	Editor's Note	Dear Monsters, We hope this reaches you well...
Zara Williams	editor's note	None	Editor's Note	"Dearest Monsters, It’s been some time, hasn’t it?..."
Zara Williams	Loneliness In Five Acts	Body HorrorOppressionAssault/Abuse/Violence	Poetry	i build for myself a person suit, soft and fleshy, pulled too taut, too tight over my scales...
Zara Williams	The Work Doesn't Stop Here	None	Editor's Note	Dear Monsters, At Monstering, we have always been dedicated “to upholding and uplifting diverse voices.” ...