just one thing — LIP SERVICE — Split Lip Magazine

Jill Kitchen’s poem “in a parallel universe, there is nothing i cannot do” uses a gorgeous cascade of language to open a portal into a different state of being. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.

SLMFebruary 13, 2025blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with Ciara Alfaro

Ciara Alfaro’s essay “Beauty Mark” catalogues the way the female body is expected to move, to perform, to please, to disappear. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.

SLMFebruary 6, 2025blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with Daisuke Takakura

Daisuke Takakura’s artwork “Cerulean Whirlwinds” captures movement and possibility in a space between the real and the imagined. Here he shares just one thing about the piece.

SLMJanuary 30, 2025blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with Sasha Brown

Sasha Brown’s flash “Catching Babies” is a delightfully terrifying romp full to the brim with spontaneously generated new humans. Here he shares just one thing about the piece.

SLMJanuary 28, 2025blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with Nini Berndt

Nini Berndt’s flash “Wingdings” aches and yearns for something, tries to close a fist around what’s missing. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.

SLMJanuary 14, 2025blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with Vanessa Blakeslee

Vanessa Blakeslee’s story “Patient X” opens questions about death, care, and our sense of reality. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.

SLMJanuary 10, 2025blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with Brooke Randel

Brooke Randel’s essay “The History of the Holocaust Survivor” grapples with the complexity of chronicling a life, of holding a person on the page. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.

SLMJanuary 9, 2025blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with Thomas Kearnes

Thomas Kearnes’s story “I Will Forget His Voice” explores the way a few words can bury into the mind, tilt everything. Here he shares just one thing about the piece.

SLMDecember 12, 2024blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with Victoria Hood

Victoria Hood’s essay “Black Cherry Merlot” runs away and turns back, learns to punch, reaches with open hands, cries out. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.

SLMDecember 5, 2024blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with brandon brown

brandon brown’s flash “Faultline” contains a ball in the dirt, smoke in the lungs, two people in the backseat of a car, an opening. Here they share just one thing about the piece.

SLMNovember 21, 2024blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with Kayla Lightner

Kayla Lightner’s story “If You’re Feeling Froggy” brings us along on a road trip that is bursting with tension, with images of small towns and pepper fields, with the narrator’s full bladder. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.

SLMNovember 14, 2024blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with Leah Korican

Leah Korican’s essay “Nancy” reveals a moment of shared intimacies, a shift, a rift. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.

SLMOctober 31, 2024blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with Séamus Isaac Fey

Séamus Isaac Fey’s poem “Tove's Cento: Youth” muses on the intensity of emotion, the distance between a parent and a child, desire for an undefined future. Here they share just one thing about the piece.

SLMOctober 24, 2024blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with Max Pasakorn

Max Pasakorn’s poem “Ghazal for My Gay Ass” bursts forth with playfulness, longing, and hope to be and to have a certain sort of boy.Here they share just one thing about the piece.

SLMOctober 10, 2024blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with Kasey Butcher Santana

Kasey Butcher Santana’s essay “Contraband Marginalia” opens the doors for us into the joys and challenges of working in a jail library. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.

SLMOctober 9, 2024blog, just one thing