The Esthetic Apostle
Notes on art, beauty, and other temptations one ought never to resist.
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What Goes Unsaid
Somewhere in the middle of reading for this issue, a sentence from David I. Hughes’ short story lodged itself in our heads and refused to leave:
Nearly everybody has apologies that are never spoken.
We didn’t set out to build an issue a...
The July 2026 Issue
Our new issue is out: thirteen poems, five stories, an essay, and three galleries — twenty-two pieces in all. What keeps surfacing across them is memory, and what it costs to hold on or let go. We’ve arranged them to be read in sequence, an...
The June 2026 Issue Is Here
“The year I was born, the world cracked open to reveal a new language.”
— Katerina Canyon, “1968”
Every issue starts as a pile of submissions and ends as a conversation. The June 2026 issue of The Esthetic Apostle is twenty-two piece...
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers
The Irish have a habit of turning mothers into mythology.
Not always on purpose. Sometimes it happens through grief, sometimes through guilt, sometimes through memory polished over years until you can’t separate the woman from the life she...
The Houseguest Who Won't Leave
Lord Henry “Harry” Wotton, from Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, is one of those fictional characters who refuses to stay on the page. He intrudes. He lingers. He has the particular bad manners of a houseguest who arrives uninvited...
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