quip is currently experiencing a time of transition—growing pains, if you will. When we first started quip, we couldn’t have predicted how fun, inspiring, and stressful running a literary magazine would be, and we definitely didn’t anticipate all the submissions […]
Issue 4 // Spring 2021 is out! This issue features more beautiful fiction from a diverse group of talented authors. Download the full issue. Table of Contents Letter from the Editors Hack | Toni Artuso Gold | Kylie Westerlind Only […]
When the night came, the coyotes appeared from the desert, hovering like ghosts. Some of us turned over in our sleeping bags as if we could mute their yips and yaps by covering our ears, but everyone knows their cries […]
I make a blood oath with Katie near the summit. It’s pretty gross, but it’s the reason we came here after dark. We’ve been watching a lot of sisterhood movies lately and figure now’s the time to solidify ours before […]
All night the cats fight tight as a wrestle. They crash back and forth in the dark and they’re not playing cuz it’s ……….cry cry ……….cry all the way to morning and another watery wake up, another rain-gray sky, another […]
I sat in an Edward Hopper painting, Nighthawks to be exact—the brightly lit yellow walls, the gleaming wooden counter with stools marching around it, huge plate-glass windows looking onto an empty, darkened street. The picture only lacked the requisite people, […]
I had once written a poem for a cow. Mogu was owned by Kunjumol, an ever-smiling entity who roamed free in her flower-printed cotton maxi, passing in and out of homes for odd jobs—cleaning, frying large batches of banana chips, […]
“I can read, you know,” she says, as I name items on the menu out loud. “How about you whistle down one of the waiters. Please?” I tell her it’s bad manners to whistle in public. Either way, I’ve got […]
