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Deeper
by Marc Russo Marc Russo is a researcher and teacher at the NC State College of Design. His research focuses on creating stories and the choices creators make in order to deepen the narrative of their work. Marc’s graphic novel Where You Stumble, There Lies Your Treasure is based on the work of Joseph Campbell,…
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Her Here (Adventures into the Unknown #35)
by Johnny Damm Johnny Damm’s piece “Her Here” is part of a larger series called “Failure Biographies,” which profiles failed twentieth century artists. He is also the author of The Science of Things Familiar (The Operating System), named by the Publishers Weekly Critics Poll as one of the best graphic novels of 2017, and chapbooks…
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Via Negativa
by Susanna Donato Remember honeybees, each flying inch of activity, powdery saddlebags fluffed with pollen. The wild bees, their tiny hovers of black and green, are my favorites, but I will miss honey. Remember cheap overseas flights, when you could bring baggage, when you’d never heard of carbon offsets, when you didn’t know every contrail melted…
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My Autobiography In Water
by Ron Riekki The Sámi for water is cháhci. Liquid is golggus. The Finn for water is vesi. Liquid is neste. I’m Sámi and Karelian and Finn. Balkan too. I like to ask people sometimes to name their favorite Karelian writers. Their favorite Finnish movies. Their favorite Sámi poets and Balkan TV shows. And then I listen…
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Long Lonely
by Aimee Seu I don’t know when I learned my father was a pastor who slept with the women in his congregation. Grief was a spare room where we put things. Inherited memory of my father singing karaoke: O my love, my darling, I’ve hungered for your touch…the Righteous Brothers’ Unchained Melody, deep untrained voice I…
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Inside the Dollhouse
by Amanda Gaines I didn’t want help. After all, I’d put together the matching yellow couches I’d ordered online in less than two hours, both of which managed to not only stay upright, but hold my weight. The apartment I’d moved into was open and wide. I’d hauled in all the clothes, books, shelves, and…
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Flight
by Laura Hartenberger Six hours after my sister’s plane departed from Tokyo and three hours from its scheduled arrival in Vancouver, oxygen masks dropped from overhead. It was just before sunrise and the cabin was quiet and dark. My sister was asleep, of course. She was proud of her ability to sleep on planes,…
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An Inch Too Tight
by Mary McMyne As I extract myself—muscle by muscle, inch by inch—from my husband’s embrace, my breath catches in my throat. I’m afraid each small sound will wake him. The scratch of the straw-mattress beneath my knee. The thud of my feet on the floor. His eyes stay closed, as I slip from our cot.…
