“Our present-tense human experience is like a living tree growing by a river. The current in the river is the passing of time. Our individual pasts are like the same tree fallen in the river, drowned now, and disintegrating with surprising speed. We resist time’s flow with our memories and language, with our stories ”
~ David James Duncan
Issue 26.2
Featuring the writing of Megan Baxter, Will Bridges, Janet Burroway, Roger Conant Cranse, Hope Henderson, Catherine Humikowski, Katherine Larson, Lucy McBee, Mariana Penãloza Morales, Sharman Apt Russell, Margot Singer, and Michael Wiley.
On the Manly Art of Quilting
By Eric K. Taylor
Even when cancer tethered her to her couch, she didn’t want anyone tethered with her...
Letter from the Same Room
By Lauren Fath
You take me to dinner at a restaurant in a deconsecrated church, The Love Apple, which has an actual apple tree on the patio, green fruits too fledgling to pick...