My dream: I sleep through your funeral, then stand, eulogy in hand, as the last car pulls away from the […]
Issue II
Welcome to Issue II of Juste Literary. We are incredibly grateful to all the talented authors and artists who contributed to this edition. Your words, your art—they have
formed a collection that feels both powerful and delicate, echoing the emotions we all carry during these challenging times. The pieces in this issue hold a mirror to our shared struggles and joys, capturing the quiet moments of reflection, loss, and hope. Each form of art, every written word, resonates with the heartache and resilience that so many of us have felt recently. Whether it’s the unrest in the world or the personal battles we face, these pieces speak to those moments in ways that are both tender and profound. As you read, may you find comfort in these works. May they touch a part of you that you thought was forgotten or hidden away. Keep enjoying art. It’s what helps us all keep going.
What water touches becomes clean. Touched water becomes impure, it is purest between heaven and earth. There is no pure […]
The closer we get to your father’s house, the emptier the land around us gets. Here, I feel like we […]
The crimson triangle flickers, becomes a glowing azure parallelogram. Metallic flecks of turquoise and indigo break away as it mutates […]
Soft edges blur the world, a veil of mist descends upon the landscape, transforming familiar sights into dreamlike apparitions. Colors […]
Stacey, what do you think of Descartes? “Huh?” Descartes, the French philosopher? Her look is a definition of befuddlement. What […]
Watching your hair turn gray in patches. The friends we hadn’t met yet, the friends we would lose. Playbills and […]
The snake pit in my backyard had been there for as long as I could remember. As children, we would […]
doubt (n): a prerequisite for faith. belief is brittle, breaking so easy so easy building bricks around it named denial, […]
Chapter One The Shipwrecked Heart I don’t know which came first, the bone-jarring shiver or the stomach-curdling crunch; I think […]
The library has a floor built from tapping feet. Taptaptap and they all live on the next wooden desk covered […]
We will not see the North in winter. We will not see the snow. This is too gentle asadness to […]
I saw a painter squeeze paints on a wooden palette creating coloured mountains held in a hand before dipping in […]
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Larena Nellies-Ortiz is a photographer from Oakland, California with a penchant for visiting markets and cemeteries around the globe. She […]
For now let’s forget all troubles & miseries In this world of red dust, forsake our family & Friends alike, […]
“[…] a human body presented itself to me… an old decrepit woman who had fled [to St Paul’s] for safety, […]
Dog roams from raging fire to sunflowersher heart burns bright with passionLike a Crow, creativity in her wingsloyalty, her gifts […]
for he wasn’t yelling at me. He was yelling at death which knits a scarf to close the throat, trips […]