Karma and Air Conditioning
Carole McGranahan
Listen to the audio version of this essay here Dried cheese is not a food one eats quickly. You suck on it, move it around in your mouth, chew it, [...]
Karma and Air Conditioning
Place at a Distance
Jessica R. Cattelino
Listen to the audio version of this essay here I should have been in South Florida, serving as a judge for the Miss Seminole Princess Pageant. Instead, I proposed Zoom [...]
Mother Bard, Fight or Flight? An Ethnography of May
Roxanne Varzi
Listen to the audio version of this essay here The moth will come to the light, and you will come to the moth. I am not a hunter. Then [...]
Expansive Mood
Alessandro Angelini
Listen to the audio version of this essay here Commotion under the amber light of a lone streetlamp. A young white woman lunges and flails at several men around her. [...]
Tell Me Everything Will Be Okay
Ruth Behar
It was February 28. I was going to Cuba with my usual fear — this time “they” wouldn’t let me out and it would serve me right for going back [...]
The Forest of (Be)Longing
Sienna R. Craig
Vermont in summer. Photo by Sienna R. Craig. Listen to the audio version of this essay here Even in these shattering months of death and change, Vermont [...]
Mariachi by Moonlight
Roberto J. González
Listen to the audio version of this essay here Before I’d even slid the door shut, Enrique punched the throttle. His battered Dodge minivan lurched forward, and the passengers greeted [...]
Flash Ethnography: An Introduction
Nomi Stone and Carole McGranahan
Brief. Urgent. Intense. 750 words total, stripped of excess. Some have called flash fiction the “smokelong” -- stories that last the duration of smoking a cigarette. Others have paralleled the flash [...]
The Annual Planetary Hydroxychloroquine Binge
Patrick Neveling
Had there been a peak? That one decisive watershed when the touch of a deus-ex-machina’s hand causes commotion in the wheel of history? Certainly not; those were the chimera of [...]
Prepping
Christopher Begley
“That’s not what the evidence suggests,” she will say. Or, “It has not always been that way.” Or, “You’re making that same logical fallacy again.” She will say those things every day. [...]
