Lxs Meninxs | Visual Art
Lxs Meninxs I miss this moment right here—that instant when you walk into a scene or see it develop in front of your eyes. You start to determine what’s going in that frame, composing. You instantly...
View ArticleA Winter in Majorca | Poetry
In the damp cell in Valldemossa, Chopin sits at the piano, a smear of blood across his lips. George Sand, in trousers, stands beside him, cold cigar clinched in her teeth. The pomegranate trees shiver...
View ArticleWhere Do We Go From Here? | Fiction
Otis scarfed down meatloaf at the Golden Corral before he went home for the day. He was obese. He loved the buffets in Milwaukee, eating at those “All-You-Can-Eat” joints in furtive necessity on most...
View ArticleWho We Are and Where We Come From | Book Review
Southbound by Anjali Enjeti ISBN: 9-780-8203-6006-5 University of Georgia Press, April 2021 248 pages, $24.95 Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change is Anjali Enjeti’s first...
View ArticleA Twilight Reel: Stories | Book Review
A Twilight Reel: Stories by Michael Amos Cody ISBN: 978-1-942016-66-3 Pisgah Press, May 25, 2021 312 pages, $17.95 Michael Cody’s collection of twelve linked stories, A Twilight Reel, follows the...
View ArticleWe congregate in aisle ten | Poetry
We congregate in aisle ten of the twentyfourhour walmart in that city named after cigarettes we find the light, the truth, somewhere between sara lee pies and sticky krispy kreme giggling on nothing,...
View ArticleWe Cannot Leave Our Truths for Dead | Nonfiction
We Cannot Leave Our Truths for Dead: Why I Chose to Change My Name and Modify My Pronouns In this moment, my new name is holding me in its arms. For the first time in a long time, I feel safe in my...
View Articlefreedom cartography | Poetry
freedom cartography Smack! I open my eyes as a tear escapes down my cheek. “Stop moving,” auntie says, a glare darkening her eyes. I cannot mess up her masterpiece. I close my eyes and her hands are...
View ArticleCheese! | Visual Art
Cheese! Britnie Walston is a versatile Maryland-based artist who captures energy through light and vibrant colors. Living near the Chesapeake Bay, her work is inspired by nature; often depicting the...
View ArticlePolyp Trees | Fiction
Mebba told me once that in the south, Magnolia trees mean something different; to our people, anyway. Their stock and branches, thick and twisted between delicately soft blooms that almost make the...
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