Your Impossible Voice

25/09/2025

“Jeff Weddle is a poet who reads other poets. Jeff Weddle is a philosopher whose ideas come not out of books but out of lived lives, of friends of now and then, of family, and of people met along the way.”

Peter Mladinic reviews "Letter to Xhevdet Bajraj" by Jeff Weddle

Review by Peter Mladinic — "Jeff Weddle is a poet who reads other poets. Jeff Weddle is a philosopher whose ideas come not out of books but out of lived lives, of friends of now and then, of family, and of people met along the way."

23/09/2025

Tuesday : "We’re All Bananas" by the exceptional Chelsea Stickle!

“After my mother’s skin cancer diagnosis, I was bullied by my older sister Sally into scheduling a ‘skin test,’ which is what they call it when you strip in a cold room and show a stranger every part of your body.”

By Chelsea Stickle — "After my mother’s skin cancer diagnosis, I was bullied by my older sister Sally into scheduling a 'skin test,' which is what they call it when you strip in a cold room and show a stranger every part of your body."

16/09/2025

Tuesday : Subjective Condition by Rebecca Tiger

“'How long will that be your excuse?'

'Buck up, there’s nothing wrong with you.'

'Don’t be a p***y.'

These are things friends have said, as they blur in front of me, as I type a few sentences, then fall into a deep, unrestful slumber, one I wake from even more confused than when I closed my eyes.”

By Rebecca Tiger — "A woman swims up to me in the clear blue-green Aegean. We agree that the water is beautiful."

09/09/2025

Tuesday : The Things You Will Do—a breathless moment by Andrea Marcusa!

"...knowing your vigil has finally ended after months of broken hours at her metal bed in strange rooms, after cross-country flights, speaking the odd dialect of vitals and ends and means, and the fragile thread you spun of cheery small talk through the phone across continents and oceans will snap..."

By Andrea Marcusa — "You will see your mother’s number calling and a strange cardboard voice will strike your ear with She’s passed, and you’ll hang onto your mind, save it from falling into dead air, fingers squeezing the life out of the phone..."

02/09/2025

"We passed one plastic cup after another back and forth through the bars, then she smashed the bottles into a trash can, came back inside, and we all toasted quick thinking and said f**k these fragile as****es as we gulped instead of sipped."

Tuesday : Drink up with Matthew Jakubowski in Libation!

By Matthew Jakubowski — "I later learned people had a lot of opinions about the kind of people we were, and our so-called lifestyles, a word they thought was so vaguely clever."

01/09/2025

Boom. Congratulations all!

Your Impossible Voice is proud to nominate these extraordinary pieces from issues 31 and 32.

26/08/2025

Tuesday : Take flight with Karen Schauber in Tuesday : Rage, wreckage, and rumination take flight in Karen Schauber's Sparrowhawk!

By Karen Schauber — "I ram down hard on the pedal driving the blue metallic mustang around the bend, careening headlong into a future without You. A year of joust and weave, submerge and abandon."

20/08/2025

"It starts with a tearing—quiet at first, like silk splitting in the dark—and then the howl builds in your spine, in your teeth, in the wet hinge of your jaw. You bite your pillow, your tongue, your lover’s shoulder. You bleed without knowing where from."

New from Mathieu Parsy!

By Mathieu Parsy — "It starts with a tearing—quiet at first, like silk splitting in the dark—and then the howl builds in your spine, in your teeth, in the wet hinge of your jaw."

19/08/2025

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12/08/2025

"She stretches out one long wing, almost as if she is waving at me. I wave back. I tell her my name. She speaks in a language that I don’t understand. Well, at least we aren’t strangers anymore. Does that make us friends?"

Tuesday from Sophie Isham!

By Sophie Isham — "We stare at each other. Both have long limbs; both find pleasure near the shore of the lake. A few turtles on a log soak in the sunlight between us. I admire her balance, how she can hold herself up on just one leg. She’s beautiful."

05/08/2025

Tuesday : A one-night stand tangled in perfume, politics, and leftover shakshuka in The Lemon Trees Don’t Care You’re Sexy (But I Do) by L.F. Khouri.

By L.F. Khouri — "She asked where I was from. I said Chicago. She said, no, like really. I said Palestine."

29/07/2025

We were captivated by the thoughtful sensory details in this new from Mizuki Yamagen, and you will be too! Don't miss "A Weekly Arrangement."

By Mizuki Yamagen — "I know your order by scent before I see you—lilies, always lilies, that quiet kind of white, the kind used for altars, for memorials, for weddings when people still believed in vows holding through worse."