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Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. In thirteen slick; innovative; and gut-wrenching flashes; the young women and girls in BREAKING POINTS; the debut chapbook from Chelsea Stickle; hit the walls around them--walls constructed by family; friends; significant others; and insidious cultural perils. "Stranger danger doesn't disappear when you start wearing a push-up bra;" notes one of Stickle's pre-teen narrators when confronted by a leering threat that will forever sever her path from that of her best friend. In "How to Make Stock with Thanksgiving Leftovers;" a queer young woman takes us through a wry recipe for boiling turkey stock and raging against small-minded relatives and the traumas they inflict. Written in the style of a classic glossy magazine personality quiz; "How Mature Are You?: A Quiz" provides whip-smart A; B; C responses to situations such as: "When that bitch in your book club calls you a space cadet" then furnishes the reader with irreverent; pull-no-punches results. This is a collection as darkly humorous as it is heartbreaking and disquieting. Within Stickle's thirteen walled worlds; some will break; some adapt; and others soar. Pushed to the breaking point; none escape unscathed.

Fifty-two writers responded in exactly 100 words to the fine art photography of Meg Boscov to create an anthology of healing visions.

"Everything is changing in towns across the United States. What we think we know is wrong. Animals have gone wild. Myths and fairytales are upended. Women's bodies are growing weapon appendages. Nothing is certain anymore. The stories we tell ourselves are shifting." -- cover, page 4

Third issue of the perzine Oh January.

A perzine about the author meeting her father for the first time in six years.

Poem and illustrations about romance from Chelsea Martin.