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March, 2019
local_library Poetry
The Still in the Fall
by Ariel Basom
Issue No. 262 ~ March, 2019
Looking for America
by David Atkinson
Issue No. 262 ~ March, 2019
The Last Summer
by Emily Laubham
Issue No. 262 ~ March, 2019
After All the Lust
by Pamela Dionne
Issue No. 262 ~ March, 2019
portrait One on One
Sympathy Powder in the Internet Era, A Conversation with Olivia Sudjic
interviewed by Anna Martin
Issue No. 262 ~ March, 2019
The day I met Olivia Sudjic, shortly after the publication of her first novel, Sympathy, she posted a series of handwritten quotations by Olivia Laing, one of which read: As with the city itself, the promise of the internet is contact. It seems to offer …
mood Humor
Brunch, Not Brains
by Donna J. W. Munro
Issue No. 262 ~ March, 2019
map Macro-Fiction
Playing Sandy Duncan
by Rachel Remick
Issue No. 262 ~ March, 2019
I was seven years old when it started with him, the thing he referred to as playing Sandy Duncan. He coined it when he found me sitting on a backyard swing, eating from a box of Wheat Thins. “Sandy Duncan endorses those things,” he said, …
person_pin Essay
Conversation: Morality and Mortality
by Gammon Brooks
Issue No. 262 ~ March, 2019
“Would you like a visitor?” “Sure. Can you help me sit up? I have never got the hang of these hospital beds. I am always dropping the remote.” “How did that get so far under the bed? Here, let me get that for you. Is …
Cities and Reflections
by Alexandra Panic
Issue No. 262 ~ March, 2019
People observe cities differently. One friend looks from the ground up, another from the top down. I look for reflections, my friend L pays attention to the city’s movements. She embraces or rejects places; I meditate on them. Perhaps, all these thoughts came to me as the result of L’s sudden urgency to relocate to Los Angeles. Perhaps, I am envious because I didn’t find that seductive sentiment of belonging that I sometimes see in other places away from home. That grounding, earthly sense that takes over my body in New York, pulling me deeper and deeper into the city. Is this the fault of the city’s geography, colors, shapes, attitude, or character? None or all of the mentioned?
pages Micro-Fiction
Is This How We Live?
by Kristy Watson-Ables
Issue No. 262 ~ March, 2019
I hear the water first. Weaving through the woods, molecules in the millions, connected and splitting, crisscrossing currents. Water toward which my soul always wanders, and I wonder the questions elicited by currents running through my mind, slipping through my fingers: what is weight, worth, …