Magazine
A Public Space
No. 31
This is an issue of weather and misinterpretation, and the unexpected patterns created by these natural forces.
Table of Contents
Fiction
A Lot of Good It Does Being in the Underworld
It's not damnation that sends you there. It's the instinct for return.
Fiction
The Funeral
He wanted to be held together by people who had known the shape of him as a child.
Fiction
Public Access
Ghost in Translation
It's good to keep some disappearances alive.
Translated from the Italian by Lourdes Contreras and Julia Pelosi-Thorpe
Fiction
Rome, New York
He felt a sensation in his body that at first was opposable, amusing, refutable.
Fiction
The Dog Star
I have a confession to make, I said to Laura. I can't sing a note and I can't dance.
Fiction
A Body in Motion
There was such confusion of light and dancing and getting at something she didn't have but wanted.
Fiction
Shotgun Calypso
I remember rolling the backseat window down and wondering if I was gonna forget someday.
Cannibal Translation
True History: A Rendering
You need to think carefully / about what I don't know how to tell you
Translated from the Spanish by Chloe Garcia Roberts
Sketchbook
My Pencil Was Frantic
An artist must paint not what he sees in nature, but what is there.
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