LIT ANGELS #23: HAUNTED BODIES

Lit Angels Issue 23: haunted bodies  

edited by Victoria Brooks

Cover image Here Lies Darkness and Light by Chelsea Sisneros 

Contents 

Anna Dorn Heavenly Creatures

Tracy Johnson Medusa and Kanamana Matsuri

Ruthie Marlenee Hollywood Halloween Trilogy

Melissa Melodie Belle McEwan See You At The Afters

Lauren Kalita Orthocoronavirinae

Terry Wolverton Citrus Paradisi

Yvonne M. Estrada Cyclic

Erick Giovanni Monrrigo From the Monster 

Jessica Aalto Blue American Spirit

Lauren Hayes You Still Come at Night

The Guest Editor of Lit Angels Issue #23 haunted bodies is  Victoria Brooks (they/she) who is a writer interested in trauma, time-travel, ethics, and trans-dimensional sexuality. They have published two nonfiction books and various essays and short fiction. Her first novel is SILICONE GOD (MOIST Books). She is also parent to an octopod (identical twins). You can find her on IG: @queermistresswifehuman.

Life, Death & Time by Alyssa Thorne

heavenly creatures 

By Anna Dorn

sugar in the sky

oh hi

a vampire crushed 

my NuvaRing 

typical female crap—

experimental pink benzos,

various crypto queens,

ghost baby blonde,

diamond lines  

of candied jazz  

avant-garde

altars

bless my lilac nerves

with fragile syrup

obsessing over 

your milky shadow

degrades me

blue turning 

dark, dark, darker

flash flowers of

slow-motion videos 

cackling virtually

—disaster moon 

rendered NEON

the stars are blind

but screenshots

are 

forever 

Anna Dorn is the author of Perfume & Pain, Exalted, and Vagablonde. She lives in Los Angeles.