• Cute and Spensy

    Anna Onni Issue 4: TOAST, September 2025 Anna Onni (they/she) is an illustrator and writer who is learning how to keep calm in the midst of crisis. They are a volunteer artist for interesting projects, about to begin an MA in Drama and Movement Therapy, and trying to perfect a lemon pound cake recipe. Anna…

  • “In Frame,” ,“Reach.” “L’eau.” , “Vista,”

    Beth Horton Issue 4: TOAST, September 2025 Beth holds degrees in creative arts therapy, sociology, and majored in health science while attending university in Western New York. Her love for art began as a small child, watching her father paint into the wee hours of the morning. She currently enjoys photography, mixed-media composition and graphite…

  • “a jean-paul sarte press conference”, “the afterlife of the system”, “uncomforted and comfortless”

    Mike Callaghan Issue 4: TOAST, September 2025 Mike Callaghan’s work focuses on fragmentation, rearrangement and reinterpretation — considering the intimate cycles of identity, self-preservation and mortality — in a moment when frameworks of relationships are at once prominently visible and exhaustively hidden. Mike’s work has appeared in many of publications, including ZYZZYVA, Barzakh, Otoliths, Rhino…

  • Morning Ritual

    Yan An Tan Issue 4: TOAST, September 2025 At the edge of nothing, I butter the bread like a prayer. Spread evenly, without thought, just muscle memory and margarine. Migraine pulses behind my eyes as outside, headlines scream in caps lock, too loud for 7:42a.m. The world keeps losing itself: shifting plates, shifting platelets, another…

  • Hermeneutic

    Ralph Issue 4: TOAST, September 2025 The drunk uncle’s a solipsist, too steepedin his ways, shouting with poor gross cocksurecertainty. Unterse altercations keepthem unsure. Children screaming to endurethe flashing, light rhythmic pulsing brightly,they lay as still as never before. She,knocked over; a broken vase, stripped naked,without dignity. Slop-streams dilate ,feedon the cerebrum leaving it with…

  • after/tastes

    Dinh Cao Tue Issue 4: TOAST, September 2025 Based in Singapore, Tue (rhymes with “kueh”) makes art, exploring and engaging with cultural stories—historical and contemporary—and across various disciplines and artforms, whether visual, literary, or performing arts. He gathers and embraces stories, traversing across and playing with thresholds and liminalities: there is always more diversity and…