SHORT FICTION BY T.R. HEALY: “One vehicle after another crept past Betsy, a road construction flagger, who sometimes thought of herself, as she watched the traffic, as a member of royalty reviewing floats in a parade.”
LAST EVENINGS ON EARTH BY MICHAEL ZAPATA: “It is nearly impossible to ride the Western bus or walk down State Street without spotting dozens of people who look as if they are deeply and sincerely confused about their own greatness and also about the impending doom of the universe and their miniscule place in it.”
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BY CARMEN MORRIS CLARK: “My grandmother is 4 foot 9 inches. She dresses like she’s from another country, another world.”
SIMPLICITIES BY JANINA A. LARENAS: Cooking a stiff milk caramel made that is wildly popular in Central and South America
A COMIC BY MATT GAJEWSKI AND ZACH DANESH: Part seven in the Lewis and Clark series
LELAND CHEUK has cause to be optimistic about the new decade
FICTION BY MIRIAM MORENO PEREZ: “I feel as if I had gone through a very narrow, disruptive tunnel of darkness, and as if someone had suddenly snatched me from such obscurity”
PRETENTIOUS MACHO THEATER BY R. JOHN XERXES: The colonial undercurrents to last year’s most celebrated film
BY KATE DANDIZETTE: An interview with two of the organisers behind a series of free programming classes for womin being held in London
RECORDS BY THEIR COVERS BY LEVI FULLER: Taking on Demon Hunter, Daniel O’Donnell and Gary Allan
A SHORT STORY BY KJ HANNAH GREENBERG: “Even at that late stage of disfigurement, he liked her body and wanted to touch it…”
SHADOW OF THE PINE BY TOM LG: “Rotation Blues”, a hillbilly song from the trenches
A COMIC BY MATT GAJEWSKI AND ZACH DANESH: Part six in the Lewis and Clark series
MOONY HABITATIONS BY LEILANI CLARK: “It amazes me how much I struggle with the acts of consumption and spending”
FICTION BY LAVINIA LUDLOW: “These girls went around from bar to bar picking fights with guys twice their size, hurling beer bottles, and chugging alcohol by the tapped barrels…”
A FINE LINE BY CAT JOHNSON: Remembering a DIY art movement from yesteryear
Culture columnist LELAND CHEUK finds signs of life in the beleaguered comedy album
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