Issue 9 Archives - Page 2 of 2 - Sensitive Skin Magazine

Mastodon Issue 9 Archives - Page 2 of 2 - Sensitive Skin Magazine

The Forgetting of Water

Doug Rice

Mai struggles to experience the place of words in her body. The slow patience of her tongue, of her lips. The care she gives to each letter, the way each letter shapes her mouth. Each word changes her. This foreign tongue...

Prime Directive

J. D. King

"Prime Directive," an illustration by JD King, the cover of Sensitive Skin #9.

Sucker

Susan Scutti

I was walking along the south side of Houston, heading home from a friend’s house. I’d stopped by to pick up my copy of The Big Sleep, one of many loaned-and-borrowed books between us. I was living on Prince Street then...