Europe’s Shield
Penelope Papailias
Listen to the audio version of this essay here JPEG Image. Created Monday, 9 March 2020 at 12:17. Add tags… We lean forward for the habitual double kiss, [...]
Europe’s Shield
Documentary Hinterlands
Catherine Trundle
“Watch out for the tea!” I am grabbing mugs as James fans documents across his kitchen table. But the papers are already watermarked by beverage stains, their corners dog-eared and [...]
Retrieve
Ashanté Reese
Listen to the audio version of this essay here Box 1988/065: Joint Committee to Visit the State Penitentiary. 20th Legislature, 1887: I learned this about Huntsville (Wynne) Prison Farm: “[this farm] [...]
Even My Name Has Fizzled Out
Huatse Gyal
Listen to the audio version of this essay here Nowadays, few people call us by our names. Most simply call us “shit collectors.” I came to the county seat [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
