We’re thrilled to present selection of collages from øjeRum’s Silent Figure with Landscape series for our 46.1 issue
On January 12, 2015, after my wife Ava got the call telling her that my TransPacific Airways flight from Honolulu to Pago Pago had crashed, she dropped herself onto the sofa and watched The Wendy Williams Show. Wendy talked for twenty minutes about a rapper who had been arrested at LAX for having a samurai […]
!10! “It hurts just as much as it is worth.” – Julian Barnes !10! The story goes that my maternal grandmother, Po Po, had her feet bound when she was a young girl in Beijing. The process was halted when they realized she would have to flee to America during the Communist Revolution. But no, […]
A woman’s backyard and garden. What she’s made, constant work:!10!!10!!10!!10!!10!genius loci, hierophany, sanctum. No, I have never spoken there with the unseen. Blue mouse ears in a rusty metal pot. !10!!10!!10!!10!!10!!10!!10!!10!!10!!10!!10!!10!!10!!10!!10! ≈ She told me that she almost died once. She wasn’t afraid of death.It was just like falling asleep, just as peaceful. The plastic […]
Our current issue features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork from: Janice N. Harrington, Neal Hammons, Alex Borden, Nicky Beer, Jacques J. Rancourt, Steven Espada Dawson, øjeRum, and many more.
“I have sweetness too, just underneath thicker rinds.” (131) In the acknowledgements for her short story collection BLISS MONTAGE, author Ling Ma cites film critic Jeanine Basinger as coining the book’s title term. Basinger’s 1993 work A Woman’s View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960 details a phenomenon in film of a woman’s briefly allowed […]
In her first memoir, Ingrid Rojas Contreras performs a delicate balancing act of history, memory, and myth. The Man Who Could Move Clouds begins with an echo. On a winter day in Chicago, a biking Ingrid crashes into a car door and suffers from temporary amnesia in the aftermath. The accident is eerily similar to […]
