March 2021 / ISSUE 6

NOT A MEMOIR

by Lilly Dancyger

Three years into the process, I was having trouble adjusting to the idea that I was writing a memoir. I didn’t want to write about myself, I wanted to write…

YOUR FUTURE SELF IS A STRANGER

by Kat Lewis

When I was twenty-three, I promised my best friend I would carry her child. The year after we graduated from college, doctors needed to do a hysterectomy…

ROMANCE SCAM

by Nay Saysourinho

Dear Mark, If you love me so much, why were you so angry with me yesterday? I had planned to wire you the money, but my car died in the middle of the road…

SOMEWHERE TO CARRY THIS

by Eva Recinos

I’ve always felt so small in museums. Not just literally, as I craned my neck up to gaze at sculptures and paintings and installations. Conceptually, too….

Busy Signal

by Anthony Grant

Busy Signal is part of an ongoing body of work which combines my interests in symbols both graphic and personal, representation of African Americans in…

HORIZON LINE

by Roe McDermott

I read once that people who grow up on islands often experience a very specific form of anxiety when they move to landlocked places. There is no word for this…