Volume Three is WTR's most explosive edition yet! This volume includes work from Jeanann Verlee, June Tang, J. Bradley, Kyle McCord, Liz Robbins, Joe Kapitan, Duarte Vitoria and so many more incredible poets, short story writers and artists.
Imagine V3 as a pistol pointed at you by someone you loved, as an exploration into humanity, into how we affect each other, how we love one another. In terms of poetry, Jackson Trice's work revolves around love as tender as an open wound, while Jason Primm's work describes childhood and family with incredible subtly, with incredible softness, like the tremors of an earthquake. In Gabriella Gonzales' work , love is violent, it's obsessive, parasitic, growing and manifesting, boiling over, but still so painfully red and raw.
The short stories in V3 delves into family, into the incredible bond between siblings, between mother and daughter, between what is foreign and what is home. In "On Pluto, Eating Starfish", a young woman tries to make sense of a world which has given her a hospitalized mother, a distant step-father and a younger brother experimenting with blueberries, octopuses and the concept of regeneration. "Daily Bread" paints the unbearably poignant portrait of a desperate mother bearing the responsibility of two hungry children.
Finally the art in V3 completely blows our minds. From oil paintings, to art installments, to sculptures, to fantastically detailed drawings created of just pencil and paper, WTR has truly published exhilarating, emotionally puling pieces of contemporary art that exists not just in it's own universe, but in the space before a line break, the moment before a character decides on divorce.
In Volume Three, WTR has captured the essence of forgiveness, of regret, of whimsy desire, and guttural guilt. V3 explores the love that is supermarket heartbreak, the love that is following the ghosts of drowned brothers, the love that is sitting outside someone's house waiting, just waiting for them to come out.
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Poetry
[you dream the scrawniest dream ever examined], Kyle McCord
Five Schools of Homemade Revenge, Julia Faulkner
River, Oriana Tang
Stray Dogs, Anita Ofokansi
Donna, Frances Saux
Fleeing the Murder (The Child), Jeanann Verlee
Biography of Mothers, Sarah LeWarn
The Parents of Our Friends, Jason Primm
Some Town, Samantha Ardoin
The Skin Beneath Your Skin, June Tang
Sweet Potato Skins, Maddie Kim
What I Learnt from the Last Time I Watched the National Geographic Channel, Rebecca Quek
Little Red, Liz Robbins
How did the author die?, Jeanann Verlee
Metro Diner, Gabriella Gonzales
Texts from Last Night, Gabriella Gonzales
Daisy’s Apocalypse, Gabriella Gonzales
Meet Me on the Night Sand, June Tang
Perspective, Lori DeSanti
E. Ninth, Gabriella Gonzales
Sweet Talk for Sophomore Year, Jackson Trice
Reprisal, Jackson Trice
Prose
On Pluto, Eating Starfish, Kristian Macaron
The Embrace, John Pistilli
Daily Bread, Chelsea Schott
Assisted Living, Joe Kapitan
John and the Beautiful Skyscraper, Cheyenne Varner
Art
Suminagashis & Haikus, Alizirine Blandine
I Just Want To Be A Cloud, Su Wan Kim
Fideos, Julian Landini
In A Sentimal Mood, Julian Landini
Polenta, Julian Landini
Dreams of Regeneration, Igor Pjörrt
Please Leave, I’d Like To Be Alone With The Idea of Your Presence, Igor Pjörrt
Le Peuple De Le Mer, Haylee Anne
407 West Howard, Michael Nelson
Age Before Beauty, Kristina Thalin
Painting Janeth (Lamentation), Stephanie Gamarra
Slaughtered by James Elkins, Stephanie Gamarra
Thin Walls, Josh Ostraff
Afternoon Dad, Sara Pedigo
Board Game, Sara Pedigo
Crowded Living Room, Sara Pedigo
Explorers, Anne Welder
Secret, Anne Welder
Portraits, Elise Dodeles
Invalid, Su Wan Kim
Iterations, Vincent Fink
Water Series, Erika Craig
Visible, Tianjiao Wang
Ginta, Bec Winnel
Little Red, Sara Pedigo
Exit Six, Christopher Kienke
Burning Car, Jonathan Deltour
Doubts, Patryk Hadas
The Change, Camille Marie Rojas
Drive Her To Shore, Sara Pedigo
Venus, Patryk Hadas
Uterus, Duarte Vitoria
Visceral, Duarte Vitoria
Chromatic Maladies vii, Cara Thayer and Louie Van Patten
Chromatic Maladies viii, Cara Thayer and Louie Van Patten