By Audrey Roberts
“Mother,” he pleaded, “just let me stay outside a bit more.”
“Finish your writing first,” she answered, “and then you may go out.”
By Alicia Liu
1.
I once received an unexpected lesson from a cephalopod. It happened in a land far, far away, on the orange-juice-stained, white-cotton-covered sofa
By Sydney Lee
My thumb like an oyster—
flaps of pale skin swollen, turgid,
outgrows its ingrown shell.
By Sydney Lee
My loss of reign over bodies,
running soldier, an everyman’s feet
slips away into rigid night—
By Ally Huang
Under the sea doesn’t sound like under
the sea. There is no red lobster singing,
no seaweed dancing, no ukulele
strumming. But do schools of fish
create waves of sound as they bubble
By Alina Y Liu
You take me between your lips and hold
me there, quivering, on the brink of splitting
down the seams. I blush orange, the color of
the sunset over the ocean, green as algae, kelp
By Emily Allen
My job, they said, was to watch.