just one thing — LIP SERVICE — Split Lip Magazine

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

Just One Thing with Caitie Karasik

Caitie Karasik’s story “Rob Bumble” contains a fabulous first date, roly-poly bugs, a favorite onion, and some deep longing .Here she shares just one thing about the piece.

SLMOctober 3, 2024blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with Mojtaba Taghvaei (aka “Moshtaba”)

Mojtaba Taghvaei (aka “Moshtaba”)’s art “Twins” provides a vibrant exploration of closeness and wakefulness. Here he shares just one thing about the piece:

SLMSeptember 26, 2024blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with Pegah Ouji

Pegah Ouji’s flash “In the Name of Those Optimist Iranian Fools” leaves the moon behind for love of a twin sister and Iran. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.

SLMSeptember 19, 2024blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with Jeremy T. Wilson

Jeremy T. Wilson’s story “Happy Hibernation!” throws us into an unpredictable journey where desires take strange shapes and squirrels come along for the ride. Here he shares just one thing about the piece.

SLMSeptember 12, 2024blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with Madeline von Foerster

Madeline von Foerster’s art “Frog Cabinet” is a powerful portrayal of nature’s fragile beauty. Here she shares just one thing about the piece..

SLMAugust 8, 2024blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with Vanessa Hua

Vanessa Hua’s flash “Forecast” shows us how destruction of one kind leads to another, a cascade of disappearing. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.

SLMJune 27, 2024blog, just one thing

Just One Thing with nat raum

nat raum’s poem “a photo bro asked me a patronizing question in 2016 & I am still thinking about it” demands honesty, holds everything up to the light. Here they share just one thing about the piece.

SLMJune 20, 2024blog, just one thing