Our Magic Box
HANNA WEBSTER
Your first pair of earrings glinting against the wood like pinprick stars. You sweaty squeezed my hand as the needle pierced the putty of your flesh. The nail polish bottle shatters, Queen of Chaos staining our lives a deep liver. Three love letters with your looped handwriting bleeding through the back. A toy deer named Fern perched on your bedroom windowsill, plush gargoyle guarding our castle, our sacred life with satin matting the hardwood. Samia’s discography her twang bathing our wilted cells while we speed on the highway. My dirty panties on your altar. A butterfly’s peach-mottled wing, encased in resin gracing your neck. White and violet rosaries whose crosses keep unchaining. We find and reattach them, clinching the wire tight like our gaze at dinner unbroken. An AI rendition of a Campari poster you lost money on, because mistakes for the sake of devotion aren’t mistakes. Those green text bubbles from my family, aren’t you making a mistake. Don’t forget you love men. Your blood on a tissue. The bubblegum Realtree bikini, the first you felt comfortable wearing outside after hormones changed you. Tresses of our bleached hair. My tear-soaked tee after you spoke with your father, head bruising my chest, a kind of holy scar. Isn’t that everything, all we can say about love? A holy scar raised against the purified world.
Knight of Pages, Zander Fieschko
Modeled by Amber Strickland
Hanna Webster is an award-winning journalist, poet, and photographer with an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University. Her literary work and art have appeared in Stonecoast Review, Poynter, ONE ART, Bellingham Review, HAD, Epiphany, and elsewhere. Webster is the current poetry editor for The Science Writer, and her chapbook, I’m So Glad I Stuck Around for This, was a semifinalist for the 2024 YesYes Books Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine, Issue no. 2: Mystics & Saints. 6x9 paperback, 196 pages.
Contributors:
2026 CLARION POETRY PRIZE
Kale Hensley (Grand Prize Winner), Syed Hashmi (Runner-Up), Sam Beal (Runner-Up)
POETRY
Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, D.W. Baker, Kara Barlow, e.l. biddle, Cat Brogan, Linda Bryant-Davis, Joseph Byrd, Halliday Carpender, Sophie Cornwell, Stephan Crown-Weber, Tony DiCarlo, Jané Dowd, Bart Edelman, Elliot, Beatriz F. Fernandez, Gretchen Gale, Charisse Gendron, Z.H. Gill, Ewen Glass, Fernando Jerez, Victor Kamhazi, Justin Karcher, Kristin Lueke, Merlin June Mack, Pip McGough, Mark J. Mitchell, KG Newman, Lisa Perkins, Patrick T. Reardon, jw summerisle, Skye Tarshis, François Tristan L'Hermite, Hanna Webster, Payson Whitwell, Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri
FICTION
Jer Hayes, Allen Kesten, Jamie LeFort, Christina Rauh Fishburne & Charlie Rauh, Taylor Thornburg, Fiona Vigo Marshall
CREATIVE NONFICTION
JH Lucas, latrell "lala" novali, Gina Twardosz
VISUAL ART
Edena Alvarado, Julieta Beltrán Lazo, Aubrienne Bergeron, Arch Budzar, Ashley Czajkowski, Lattea Falco, Zander Fieschko, Sarah Goodermuth, Hannah Greteman, Catie Hernandez, Kaitlyn “Thu” Hettinger, Sophia Huang, Jowonder, Martina McAteer, Mina Mond, Brigid O'Neil, Diana Story, Sydney Strickland, Émile Sylvain, Angel Teeth
Issue no. 2 is expected to release in June 2026. Please note that copies are printed-to-order and can take up to one month to be delivered.