Straitjackets Magazine

The Editors dedicate this issue of Straitjackets Magazine to our friend, fellow editor, and author, JoLynne Buehring. We miss you, Jo.

Mutiny on the Bounty , Men against the Sea , & Pitcairn's Island by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall In the sixth grade in...

Oh snap. Everyone must be at this pool party—there were no submissions.

“Let’s take this outside.” Flaco gestured toward my car. “You’re gonna see how I maintain respect.”

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Sparklers and fireflies …

The “T” in Tahoe was testosterone.

Someone washed the clothes last night And washed the red ones with the white!

After burying my guinea pig in the backyard, my dad leaned the shovel against the willow and took my small hand into his big one.

Fifteen minutes ago Fitzroy Samson had extended his bail until the next hearing date.

“Timmy is the worst.”

In prolonged baritones beneath my sleep chords from tires drone against the roadbed

… sitting at the table with my coffee, I planned his demise.

If flowers and blossoms and citrus trees and fruit could sing, which they can …

… the otherwise darkened street is illuminated by lights at the Botanica Mistica.

The fragile beauty of the wildflower in rainbow colors

Desire Dehau Reading a Newspaper in the Garden by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec