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Author: V Riczker

Papier Monsters

1 There are two kinds of monsters, and there are two kinds of days you learn what they […]

Posted on October 15, 2025October 15, 2025 Issue #16Toronto

The Butch Bar

Take me to the room where there is no violence. Where the music is loud & the laughter […]

Posted on June 30, 2025June 30, 2025 PRIDE 2025Toronto

Desert Rose Soliloquy

Bury me in that red-rocks desert, Where the lilies don’t grow And the mountains cast a shadow On […]

Posted on May 24, 2025May 24, 2025 May FlowersToronto

Disaster Fantasy, or 13 Ways to Survive an Earthquake

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I dream of disaster in the back of my mind.

Posted on August 3, 2024August 3, 2024 Issue #13

I Could Do That: An Argument for Modern Art

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I could do modern art. It’s not that hard, right?

Posted on April 24, 2024April 26, 2024 Individual Drop

The Brain Scramble Valentine’s Gift Guide, or an Ode to the People I Love (Even the Strangers)

I have compiled both hypothetical ideas and actual gifts given, both the meta- and the physical, from both friends and acquaintances.

Posted on February 29, 2024April 21, 2024 Issue #11

Dialogue of Two Birds at the End of the World

By V RiczkerEditors: Ellena Lu There’s another world where we’re better than this.  Prettier? I’d say it if […]

Posted on November 30, 2023 Issue #10

“god kisses a boy for the first time”

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Why didn’t you tell me?
You wouldn’t have understood.

Posted on August 5, 2023August 5, 2023 Issue #9

Lucky Number 13

These charms are different from the ones I used to wear. For one, the chains don’t match. Neither do their sizes. Neither does the weight they carry.

Posted on April 24, 2023April 24, 2023 Issue #7

Better oblivion community center: a track-by-track retrospect

imagine, if you will, a town. in this town, high on a hill, is a structure so menacing that children write folk tales about it. it has become a monster of its own. it eats up the town crazies and never lets them out.

Posted on December 20, 2022December 20, 2022 Issue #5

jawbreaker

My eyes were always too big for my face my forehead was too I never fit where i […]

Posted on October 30, 2022October 31, 2022 Issue #4

Thin For a Day

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(CW: body image, dysphoria, dieting for medical issues, disordered thinking) What does it mean to be fat?    Recently, […]

Posted on July 17, 2022September 2, 2022 Issue #2

Fishing Trip

   “Why not?”    Disappointing, yes. But I should have known that when you ask a simple question, you get […]

Posted on July 17, 2022November 29, 2023 Issue #2
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