Where sticky layers and associative leaps meet torn textures and graphic contrast, Erica Trabold’s collages evoke feelings of nostalgia while troubling the very act of memory.
Ruiz Aguilar was young when his father died. They’d tell Ruiz that his father’s death was an accident, that even though his father, Reinaldo, smoked three packs of Marlboro cigarettes a day, he was still in decent health for a man of thirty-six. Sometimes, people were just in the wrong place at the right time. […]
“Jade is a hippie, but she’s so fucking pretty,” a girl in my grade said, clicking her gum loudly as we stood in line to take our seats in the auditorium. We were freshmen, and we kept a running list of who was pretty, who had turned pretty, and who could be pretty if they […]
My Grandma got married and divorced and married again and divorced again and the third time she married Grandpa George, who was the Mayor of Dollywood. He had a big bushy beard and red chipmunk cheeks. He wore colorful vests covered in buttons and a top hat covered in pins. Grandpa George was like a […]
Our current issue features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork from: Kaylie Barreda, Raye Hendrix, Kathyrn Henion, Elizabeth Vidas, Lloyd Wallace, Ava Nathaniel Winter & more.
What struck me first were the ways of exiting — via bird, via memory, via magic. Brent Ameneyro’s speakers are all knowing and all nostalgia. Producing not the sheen of romantic recall but the cleverness of reconstruction. In Ameneyro’s debut, A Face Out of Clay, there is no questioning, but lingering visitations. Portraits of loved […]
The particular landscape of Jessi Jezewska Stevens’ first collection, Ghost Pains, recalls echoes of the “New Aesthetic,” a term coined back in 2012 to describe the leakage of the digital realm into the physical world. Characters point their phones at the sky, “as if to image-search the constellations,” travel by way of reading reviews on […]
