THRU Magazine Archive
Chapter Three — Monday What was I thinking? The mud from the river would act to preserve the body, not break it down. I had not been careful enough. It wasn’t until I signed my name in that guestbook that I realized how shoddy my ad hoc plan was. The florescent lights in the lobby […]
How One Rideshare Became a Night of Danger and Seduction. She called when I was in the car with my Mother, with a trunk full of groceries, two years ago. I was on my holiday-season road trip to Tucson, December 2013. She was calling about a rideshare to Los Angeles that I had recently posted […]
Hexagram 16 is named 豫(yù), “Providing-For.” Other translations include “enthusiasm” and “excess.” Chapter Five — One Week Later Time’s up, said the guard. She took out a lipstick and pushed up the gel, but as she pressed the red to her ruby lips, she chased the color away, subtracting evidence of the artificial one millimeter […]
Featured Image by Beatriz Albuquerque There are worse ways to spend an evening than hearing Bob-Bob tell the story about the time he brought a cow’s eyeball to school, and the kids took turns sticking it to the palms of their hands. It was easy access for him because his father owned a meat-packing plant, […]
Illustration and short story by Jen Scholten I fell into a pool when I was young, as I fell into so many bodies of water in my youth. I was born on the water too, like you, Lidia, except I can’t reflect on a moment of your literal near drowning — I don’t remember you writing […]