We’re thrilled to present a compilation of artwork from Scott Brennan.
Carrie and Steva met the boys online. This was after another long basketball practice where Pam could not stop talking, this time about something on the internet called ICQ. Because she could not stop talking about it, Pam missed all of her free throws—and caused others to miss theirs in the grand manner—air balls, hard […]
The morning I drove to Sara’s place to take photographs of her our hometown was covered in snow. A blizzard had passed in the night, leaving the roads so empty the traffic lights looked superfluous. Sara had just bought a condo. Days earlier she’d laughed when she told me this over the phone. A condo? I thought. Who would buy a condo? […]
i formed a body of clay around
a clot of dried blood !10! !25! i formed
a body of dirt & water !25! i formed
a body of water around red earth […]
Our current issue features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork from: Katherine Zlabek, Erica Cavanagh, Safia Elhillo, Shakthi Shrima, Cherene Sherrard, Marlin Jenkins, Scott Brennan, and many more.
This project was supported [in part] by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Lacy M. Johnson is a writer, professor, curator, activist, and the author of three books. Her essay collection, The Reckonings (Scribner, 2018), was recently named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. She lives in Houston, Texas, where she teaches creative nonfiction at Rice University and is the Founding Director of the […]
It is an impossible task—to be safe in America when your neighbors are watching. It’s impossible to explain how your body is too large to protect, how history is also a place in the body. When I moved to the South, I became a danger. I made a disturbing sight flickering through the grocery aisles. […]
