Queer Love and Other Dis(ease)s
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I use to imagine myself a girl
kissing boys in games of boyfriend and girlfriend:
renaming ourselves away to escape detention,
toward the fun of rehearsed adult...
Semi-Permeability
I was awake while you were drowning
me: in bed
you: the adjacent bathroom
I wanted to move but didn’t
I wanted to yell but couldn’t
I listened to...
April Fools
ISI JI! THAT redundant, annoying, purple-coloured head of a yam tuber! Despite how much my siblings and I hated it, it found its way...
The Man With The Pink Underwear
Anabel’s eyes widen when she sees me. She leaves the door open and disappears into the house, leaving me to drag my boxes in...
Men and Women
A man and a woman are spades,
Two coins of a currency,
And so when they asked me to choose,
For I could only love one or...
The King Would Send His Men
In another time, in another life, they would call those embers, eyes.
Eyes that spoke in bold italics,
brimming with kohl
kohl that wore silence,
bore songs like...
Editor’s Note
Dear Reader,
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Outcast Magazine.
Outcast was started with the help of literary enthusiasts who wanted to bring forward LGBTQ+ writers...
Still Cooking
Tina stood at the kitchen counter, eyes fixed on the half-wilted arrowhead vine that her friend, Ayona, had brought with her when she’d moved...
That Kind Of Fire
It was the first form. It was everybody’s first time. It was a crazy time. Girls had formed into women in their heads, and...
The Ghost in Aidan’s Kitchen
I first saw her when I came down for a glass of milk. Mama kept the kitchen counter clean and arranged her kitchen stools...