The Metaworker Literary Magazine
Where great stories are forged.
“I feel something for this streetlight. Its red glare protecting that dearest of intersections.” – excerpt from The Intersection of North College and Blue Clay, nonfiction by Kaylee Skinner #TheMetaworker
“Her story is in progress…but she already feels connected to it. They’ve spent many hours together, after all. Her story is about a man named Walter.” – excerpt from The Strings, fiction by Eliza Basch #TheMetaworker
“I tell her / it is a raisin, a zabiba—a mark / that forms where the brow is laid / in long conjunction with earth” – excerpt from Sharh on Mutwatta Imam Malik, Book 58, Hadith 1849, poetry by Rozalija Grace #TheMetaworker
Four Microfictions by Ken Poyner #TheMetaworker
“They don’t tell you this, / but when a star dies, / it burns so hot, / the atoms forget themselves.” – excerpt from How to Burn Like a Star, poetry by Joshua Walker #TheMetaworker
“as if scent could summon presence, as if blue plastic jugs / might carry memory like vessels across a quiet Styx.” – excerpt from Someone I love has vanished & that is why I’m in the detergent aisle of the corner store, poetry by Rowan Tate
