Digital Issue No. 9

Embers of home billow and blow as history burns hard.

Corporeal expanse, with wrangled nerves and a quieted pulse.

Humiliation and desperation/ community and aspiration.

This installment of Mark Elzey’s autobiography brings the reader through an interminable and harrowing string of childhood corrective surgeries for the sake of “normalization”.

Will, when coupled with grit, goes a long way.

A relationship shakes amid combat against corporate greed.

Unresolved, uncertain, and untrusting, the chasm grows.

War makes men monsters and monsters men.

In a bitter voice, the undergirding of self worth is dismantled as a possible, unnerving root of feminism is excavated.