Twenty-odd
There is a sort of sweet-and-bitter grief that comes with becoming with leaving, still loving. I wish it had happened quietly, not stark and wild, overnight. Honestly, I wish, mostly, that they’d been kinder to you— Fuck. I don’t know…
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The Mythologist
Some days, I am unable to conceive of love as anything except a kind of yearning. I’m Hades, stretching out my hand for Persephone every summer morning. The sheets are empty—because that’s what love is, or at least what it…
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Ghost Girls, Volume 3
We’re back, with the first publication of 2024! I’m pleased to share that my work, On the Unfathomable Loyalty of Pain, appears in the third volume of Ghost Girls. Over the past few years, I’ve developed a really pernicious habit…
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Black Mesa, Oklahoma
And for my next trick, I’ll be climbing a mountain in the desert! Wait, hang on, I’m getting a note here. What’s this? You say we’ve already had one desert mountain? Well, what about second desert mountain? For better or…
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Witness Magazine, Vol. XXXVI No. 2
I’m honored (and a little awed) to share that my work appears in the latest issue of Witness Magazine, produced by Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This magazine consistently publishes insightful, arresting, and timely work…
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Lovely as Marrowbone Longlisted for the Uncharted Magazine Novel Excerpt Prize
Super excited to share that an excerpt from my upcoming novel Lovely as Marrowbone was longlisted for the Uncharted Magazine Novel Excerpt Prize! This piece has been a long time in the works (and may one day even see the…
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Mount Magazine, Arkansas
Welcome back to the highpointing saga! Today, we’re headed back to the south—to the green hills and rolling valleys of the Ozarks, no less. Highpoint number four is that fabled emerald peak (or more of a gentle rise): Mount Magazine!…
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Mount Greylock, Massachusetts
Well, this is unexpected. Texas first for the Texas resident, sure. Louisiana, a natural progression therefrom. Massachusetts. Excuse me? One of these things is not like the others. There’s no grand explanation, other than that there are many benefits to…
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On the Sisyphean Task of Understanding One Another
Hard to understand, a riddle of a woman, you said. Dangerous in joy, childish in grief. Wicked in a way you didn’t understand: I wanted you to understand. Wrote it out plain, line by line— consumptive desire, abyssal hunger—girl, strangled…
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Eye to the Telescope, Issue 48
So incredibly thrilled and honored to share that my work appears in Issue 48 of Eye to the Telescope, a quarterly journal of speculative poetry produced by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association. This publication is a dream come…
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Abigail E. Sims 