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Your Life, After All

46, Essay by Jenni Olson

During those bookish Midwestern college years of buzz-cut, leather jacket, and youthful butch bravado she enthusiastically relents to the errant interpretation of her gender — as classmates and professors alike assume her masculine appearance is evidence of actual manliness. This …

AN ANNOTATED HISTORY OF “DORIS”

46, Essay by Doris W. Cheng

God creates the world. He asks Adam to name the living creatures, since all kine and fowl of the air and beasts of the field should be endowed with their true names. – Genesis

1973
Birmingham, Alabama. Minnan “Charles” Cheng

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Mimes

45, Essay by Eleanor Garran

“This might appear pretentious but the only thing which interests us is what is accurate and true” (Lecoq)

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In acting, creating a character is like being a sea anemone.

You’re the chosen substance: anemone. Tendrils. Whatever the tendrils are …

A heavy thing to carry

45, Essay by Jennifer Steil

The message appeared as I was reading to my nine-year-old daughter Theadora over breakfast. She was perfectly capable of reading to herself, but neither of us yet wanted to relinquish this morning ritual. As I turned a page of Flowers …

When I Crawl Inside This Picnic / I Can Have Complete Thoughts

Essay, Issue 44 by Julia Cohen

“I took advantage of being at the seaside to lay a store of sucking-stones….I distributed them equally between my four pockets, & sucked them turn & turn about.”—Beckett, Molloy

My arms are so weak / truly weak, like the stems …

Active Drowning

Essay, Issue 44 by Lisa Nikolidakis

I envy the grace with which some people take to water: their bodies slick, their confidence unquestioned, feet-first, head-first, the body first a closed fist, then a palm extended, plunging and gliding and breathing with ease. I’ve a graceful doggy …

Kimonos

Essay by Kate Kimball

I wanted to leave.

At fourteen, I had decided that I was tired of blending in with the clean-cut white Mormons in Salt Lake City, Utah, and I decided the perfect place to go was Nairobi, Kenya.  I had voraciously read …

Breakfast with Hatti

Essay by Heather Campbell Grimes

There was a rip on the red vinyl of the booth at the restaurant. It appeared to swell like a scar as the foam viscera pushed its way out, in spite of an impotent piece of duct tape that barely …

Dream DNA: Personal Mythology and the Narrative Elements of Taemong

Essay by Loren Goodman

While taemong remain part of a vibrant culture of dreaming in Korea, some suggest that the tradition is diminishing in importance. What follows draws from five years of ethnographic research (collecting taemong) and practice (interview, transcription, illumination, analysis) in the …

States of Emergency

43, Essay by Lynnda Wardle

This is the year that people will talk about
This is the year that people will be silent about
The old see the young die.
The foolish see the wise die.
The earth no longer produces, it devours.
The sky
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