VQR Online

Here was Cyrus at the door on a Saturday, unannounced and with a leather duffel hanging from each arm, asking to crash for a night or two—three at absolute most.

We made a dance of all the ways

we’d hurt our bodies.

on a movie set and you see the doctor

I chose it,
went willingly,
put in

the time
with the diocese
and my sponsor,

What Drag Culture Means for the Legacy (and Future) of the LGBTQ+ Community in an Appalachian Town

My father, a conscientious objector and lifelong man of peace, handed me the revolver and told me that his father would have wanted me to have it.

Light cut through the darkness that filled the nave, rousing Pastor Kane from sleep.

On the New Science of Narcissism

—a spectrum, an immeasurable gradient, during and after which

the places where you were can be tracked over a sprawling landscape

I wanted to play Gabriel in a tinsel crown,
but was cast as the Little Drummer. I hoped
to carry the crucifix, to ferry the chalice
down the long corridor of St. Aloysius