[Image description: Two drawings in black and white are framed side by side. They depict two sections of the same bridge. In the first panel, two supports form an archway underneath the bridge’s girders and decking. Through the opening in the archway, a series of tall, thin tree trunks can be seen on a hill in the distance. The right panel shows cracks in one of the bridge supports, the fracture branching upward. ]
Barking Sycamores is a literary journal entirely edited and operated by queer neurodivergent people of color. We publish poetry, artwork, short fiction (beginning with Issue 3), creative nonfiction (beginning with Issue 8), and hybrid genre work (beginning with Issue 9) by emerging and established neurodivergent writers as well as essays on neurodiversity and literature and book reviews (beginning with Issue 10).
Editors’ note: This is last of a four-poem set submitted jointly by Justin Evans and Jeff Newberry. We opted to publish one poem on each normal publication day, over the span of a week and a […]
Audition by Rachel Schmieder-Gropen She admired my courage, she said in a way that made it clear that she had noticed nothing else. I did not need her to validate my humiliation. I was there […]
[Image description: A landscape image of a large body of water, with a tall scattering of trees in the midground and a collection of hills visible in the distance. In the foreground on the right […]
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