↓ sites for more ff pieces can be found at the bottom of this list! ↓

✹ "...and if you do them, just as I ask, know that I promise to haunt you dearly, the way we have always haunted one another, a slow, inevitable mourning of something we never quite got right." — next of kin, jo gatford

✹ "As usual, we go out of our way to examine it. My father thinks I should know what death looks like." — undercurrents, gillian o'shaughnessy

✹ "Forget this: the more you try to forget, the more you’ll remember. So forget it all." — x, lane osborne

✹ "When he crouched, she looked at the back of his neck, a name tattooed there that she couldn’t read: it cursived around his collarbone like a necklace." — footnotes on a love story, k-ming chang

➽ for more exploration:

• smokelong quarterly
• asian american writers' workshop
• the rumpus