The man’s first wish: a job where he could earn promotions without kissing up to his manager or navigating office politics. A job where he...
Womxn’s History Month Special Issue Fiction Winner: Plumtree
There is an old lady in a forest who sells lightning by the bottle. Drop five dollars and you can strike whoever you choose.
Womxn’s History Month Special Issue Fiction Runner Up: Come Disastrous Water/Rise O Deadly Sea
As she collected the fish, her foot slid into the water. Her coral bloomed, lifted off her skin. What had once been neon now glowed...
Womxn’s History Month Special Issue: Winners & Honorable Mentions Announced
Columbia Journal is excited to announce the winners and finalists of our inaugural Womxn's History Month Special Issue, in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. We...
Review: Writers & Lovers by Lily King
King is able to capture the particular kind of youth Casey is struggling with perfectly: one where she hasn’t lived anywhere with a dishwasher since...
Important Terminology For Military Age Males
or, Cassinga—as in Operation Reindeer; as in there is no difference between civilians and soldiers when it comes to the kaffirs: “There are only targets...
Review: Track Changes by Sayed Kashua
Kashua explores the ideas of migration, language, and nationality through a perpetual internal monologue that at times, seems to give away too much of the...
Flash Fiction: “On Becoming Anti-Depressed” & “Sense/Reference”
I tried micro-dosing mortared pills in squares of toilet paper, and when that didn’t work I bought an expensive machine to re-encapsulate the ground-up chemicals.
Return Instinct
A younger version of herself might have gifted her body to him, for a night. But it is herself she is returning to, and she...
Review: The Recipe for Revolution by Carolyn Chute
It is a book that dares you to grapple with it, then mocks you for the attempt.
Songbirds of Suburbia
There was another time and another place, and from that place, Jana’s mother pulls forth stories of swamps and leeches, broken bones, neighborhood dogs turned...
Review: The Antidote for Everything by Kimmery Martin
Martin’s greatest strength is in her depiction of characters, painting them vividly across the page in acute details.