John Swofford is forty-six and and lives in Rex, Georgia. He was featured in a L’Exposition show that was shown […]
Issue III
Dear Readers,
In a world that asks so much of us just to stay alive, we’re grateful to offer you Issue III of Juste Literary. This collection gathers voices from around the globe—each piece a fragment of tenderness, defiance, and wonder. We hope these works reach a gentler part of you, as they did us.
With deep thanks to our contributors, we invite you to step in. A new kind of beauty awaits.
With love,
Anas & Abdullah
Issue III, June 2025
Here, an unlikely gurgle from between two rocks, becomes a stream wiggling its way through narrow rifts and passages, a […]
after Archibald MacLeish The sun hovers on the horizon before creeping over mountains and meadows over oceans hills houses and […]
It’s Sunday, the morning after our first night back in our old apartment with Daddy, and the place is quiet. […]
there is a paper cut on the skin of my soul, the past beats inside me like a second heart. […]
His eyes are sloped and sad gray blue. He looks away in situ frameless. I see a field. I leave […]
The canopies that cover the street obscure my vision, so it’s not until he’s upon me that I spot him. […]
In our living room at night, curtains drawn, a light creeps over the rug, widens around a magazine stand. How […]
Walk into the studios of the Torpedo Factory andyou’ll see the potters in residence surrounded by pressure.When they sit at […]