Bitter is an indie literary magazine that seeks out experimental and visceral work.


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  • Errands Vivid

    Originally from New York, Emily Zweibel is a self-taught analog collage artist based in Mexico City. Her work explores the surreal landscapes that exist just beneath the surface of the everyday. She juxtaposes dualities — whimsy and foreboding, fragmentation and synthesis, mundane and extraordinary — to create a strange familiar, inviting you to find the…

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  • alert and oriented times four

    “feel this city skyline, its beautiful body and us rib-spilt all over the rooftop. tongues groping the distant lights – somewhere, a mother we pretend not to miss.”

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  • custodian of the breath

    “Custodian of the breath whispering through veins and torn toenails put your ear to the dust, i’m told, for it spells our future”

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