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HISTORY OF PAINTING
by Brandon Shimoda When my mother was pregnant with me, she took a class on color theory. The class was at California State University...
NONFICTION
- 4 min
The Black Paragraphs
by Adrian Potter 1. Sometimes, we die of such blackness, after becoming a smudge on the margins. Slice right through layers of scar...
- 7 min
Our Stories Grow in their Own Time: On (not) Writing about Trauma
by Lisa D. Chavez (This was originally a talk at a panel discussion from the AWP Conference 2021, titled “Difficult Muses and Damaged...
- 7 min
WE ARE ALL WORKING FROM HOME ANYWAY
by Ploi Pirapokin I woke up on my thirty-third birthday, shaken by my surgeon at 4 a.m. “Congratulations on surviving your appendectomy!...
- 3 min
百感交集
by Jennifer Tseng Once upon a time, I floated within my mother’s sea. I’d never seen a book or a person suffering. I’d never seen...
- 7 min
Peregrination to the Antithetical Sound of a Bird Smashing Into a Window
by Chris Moore A man working on a construction site right outside of my apartment window just had his hand crushed
- 8 min
Haunted
by Jennifer Manalili
The house that sits on 4344 Marcia Court in San Diego is a fake.
A phantom house.
- 5 min
ERASURE
by Casandra Lopez
SHIRAAAW’AXNE (I SPEAK )
It is evident that if allowed to roam at pleasure, their early extinction is inevitable
- 3 min
On Seventeen in Appalachia
by Rachel M. Hanson
I stepped out of the house at dusk, still able to see shrub oaks thinned out for winter,
- 4 min
A La Loro Morte
by Heidi Czerwiec
I’m a mushroom hunter. In order to find mushrooms, I need familiarity with what they feed on.
- 18 min
Producing Pearl Harbor: Militourism, Memory, and Colonial Curations of Space
by Paxon Balthazar Kalāhikiola Chang
The H-1 spans from West to East O’ahu, contouring the Leeward side of the island
- 5 min
Ancestor of Fire
by Aaron A. Abeyta
I wish to be an ancestor of fire and how flames came to be, an ancestor of particular slants and dances of light wherein
- 7 min
The Voice of the Land
by Susan Olding
In the early 1990s, as a recent transplant from downtown Toronto to Eastern Ontario—more or less due north of Syracuse,
- 5 min
Transitive Functions
by Nehal El-Hadi
The first Arabic-language play to be staged in Toronto as part of a theatre’s regular season was a double-bill about the