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The shirt says I HAD POTENTIAL in white capitals across the chest. Beneath the words, a white curved ramp descends from left to right. At the top left ledge, a dashed empty circle. At the bottom right, a solid white…
The notification banner is white and rounded, the kind of shape a phone makes when it wants your attention. A small bell sits at its left edge. The words inside read: There is motion at your front door. Below the…
The shirt does not say much. Three words in a column, or perhaps a row, depending on how the printer has set them: THANKFUL, GRATEFUL, BLESSED. Beside them, or woven through them, wheat stalks. That is the whole design. No…
The shirt says I GOT THAT DOG in cream lettering, then IN ME beneath it, and between the two lines sits a small tan chihuahua in red boxing gloves. Behind the dog, on a brick wall, a much larger black…
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The shirt does not ask for anything. It states a condition. In block capitals, the kind used on wet-floor signs and electrical warnings, it reads NOT FRIENDLY. Below that,…
There is a particular kind of quiet that lives in a lowercase meh. Not the loud, theatrical sigh of a bad day, but the small, centered, almost apologetic meh that sits on a dark shirt like a secret you are…
The shirt says Cat Daddy, but not in a straight line. The native garment preview shows a C and a T on either side of a cat silhouette, with Daddy sitting underneath. Light lettering on a dark shirt. The cat…
Refusal letters are administrative documents with a structure. They name a provision, state a finding, and stop. They are not verdicts on the family. They only feel like verdicts because of where they are kept. What I want to write…
Four root vegetables, smiling. A carrot, a radish, a beet, an onion, each drawn with its roots visible in the soil, and around them the words LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW. The design is on…
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The shirt is dark. The word is white. The word is meh. — lowercase, bold, and enormous, stretched across the chest like a billboard for apathy. There is no…