“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.
Autobiography on the Eve of My Thirtieth Birthday
By Melanie Ritzenthaler
I think about God a lot because I think all ex-Catholics do. That means I think a lot about sin, and also about death...
My Sister Teaches Me How to Dice an Onion
By Jessica Franken
What on earth are you doing? she says, (my mistake was cutting the ends off first...
He Comes Back for the Curtains
By Jill Currie
After all that, he comes back for the curtains. The blackout curtains that helped him sleep in on so many school days—past the alarms I begged him to set, past all my fruitless shouting, past noon...