Crispin Rodrigues Issue 4: TOAST, September 2025 yeah you / yes yes you ah ma / with your grey afro perm / with your floral shirt a size too big / for your shrunken breasts and hips / shake them shaky knees that don’t bend too well / clog your way into the rhythm /…

Shaik Aqeel Issue 4: TOAST, September 2025 Shaik Aqeel is a creative trying to capture the ever-moving haze of youth in his work. He is a part of sploosh!, a youth literary collective, and can often be found fawning over his records. He is currently listening to David Bowie’s Heroes, and hopes to one day…

Soh Yong Xiang Issue 4: TOAST, September 2025 after the stoicism class,realising i’d lost my walletthe day turned frizzyanyway, wallopedme with worry despite my will.shortly after, i sneezed throughthe mandatory meditation,or else strayed indulgingin the light honeying the trees outside.not for want of tryingthese things slip by me,only it’s tough having a mindlike a dribbled…

Paul Hostovsky Issue 4: TOAST, September 2025 When Gilbert asked me to be his best manI started writing this little toast in my headabout the National Braille Press where we allworked, me in Transcription, Gilbert and Lisain Proofreading, where they fell in love amongthe braille dots, reading volumes in the goosebumps,reading love in each other’s…

Sher Ting Chim Issue 4: TOAST, September 2025 Sher Ting is a Singaporean-Chinese writer. She is a 2021 Writeability Fellow with Writers Victoria, a member of Kenyon Review’s Winter Workshop 2023 and a Tin House’24 Winter Workshop participant. She has work published in Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, AGNI, Colorado Review, Salt Hill, OSU The…