Fiction from Eva Schlesinger
The Cha Sisters THE CHA SISTERS’ hair shone like caramelized brown sugar. Their skin looked like they hung out under sun lamps, when, in fact, they ate five pounds of carrots every week. They drank chai tea, had a chinchilla and a Chow Chow, and liked to ride the choo choo train. They lived downstairs in […]
Two Poems by Rebecca Macijeski
Death’s First Lesson Death’s small feet hang over the edge of the couch. Her grandmother teaches her to knit, feeding yarn between the needles, always working and passing. Death watches the loops of color slide along the machine of her grandmother’s hands. Soon a pattern generates, astonishing as a tumor or a shroud, and death’s […]
Nonfiction from Kristen M. Ploetz
Pilgrimage “The number one thing that’s most similar among the different pilgrims on these different journeys in these different faiths is they’re all searching. It’s that they no longer want to just passively accept the religion, they want to be active in deciding what they believe.” –Nicola Menzie, The Christian Post JERUSALEM. Mecca. Char Dham. […]
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