By J.M. Lasley Editor’s warning: assault, self-harm, mental illness He comes at night, when no one is watching. The soles of his white shoes squeak on the shiny white floors, reflecting white lights above, humming and buzzing through night and day. The keys jingle-jangle and the door swings open, screaming. He smells of sweat […]
By Keith Welch The Future Ain’t What it Used to Be. –Yogi Berra We were promised flying cars, and condos on the moon, even racial equality: all those great sci-fi gags. Those were the glory days, the Future. Everything polished smooth and covered in chrome. In the fifties, we had the scent of unlimited […]
By Laura Mazza-Dixon Evidence accumulates as one by one, those who suffered while the truth was silenced begin to find the courage to speak. Congress tells us that all will be done with care, new revelations investigated, whistleblowers protected. On another channel, others deny all wrongdoing, again and again, mounting their defense in louder […]
By Alexander P. Garza Editor’s warning: assault, violence against women “Mira a mi tia.” Look at my aunt. “La mataron.” They killed her. She shows me a photo on her phone: a black honduran woman, motionless, face down, half-naked, ass exposed, top torn. The girl tells me her aunt’s just been raped and murdered, […]
By Luke Walters The little girl’s teal hat is what caught my eye. She and a woman were hugging the bottom of a gravel drainage ditch, hidden from sight—except to me, perched high in my rig. I’d just passed dozens more like them sitting cross-legged along the highway next to green-striped border patrol trucks. […]
By Julie Weiss Editor’s warning: violence, racism —For Robert Fuller There’s a body hanging from a branch outside City Hall & nobody is talking. The sky cowers under its predawn cloak. The tree holds its breath. This is not a Discovery Channel documentary set in the Antebellum South or an antique postcard from […]
