No. 29
In these times of fragments and fragmented times, what are the shapes of our comfort. Built and imagined. What gives boundaries and connection, healing and shelter, familiar pathways and points of rebellion.
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Public AccessFragments
No. 29
In these times of fragments and fragmented times, what are the shapes of our comfort.Fiction
The Delivery
No. 29 • Jhumpa Lahiri
A light push, perhaps even a gust of wind, would be enough to send her backward over the edge.Poetry
The Alice Tully Show
No. 29 • Colm Tóibín
Alone in America, / I tiptoe on the blurred line between the First and Second Amendments.Family History
Two Women
No. 29 • Claire Messud
Needless to say—and it was never said—they hated each other.Fiction
Dublin, We Were
No. 29 • David Hayden
We can return home in our reflections, even when the city we knew, the city we were, has gone forever.Fiction
Cats Are Hunters, After All
No. 29 • Kat Thackray
It is not an argument you are willing to lose, so you say nothing.Fiction
Green
No. 29 • Steven Millhauser
In the deep hours of the night, a doubt came over some of us, but in the morning we were swept up once again in our desire.Poetry
Public AccessThe Poem of the Bow
No. 29 • Al-Shammākh ibn Ḍirār
For there to be friendship, some wrongs must be suffered.Fiction
Tough Nickels
No. 29 • Taisia Kitaiskaia
What I like about you, Larry, is precisely all those things that are wrong with you.Fiction
Public AccessOur Language
No. 29 • Yohanca Delgado
Like memory, language changes. Our words eddy around the things we fear.Fiction
Nazaré
No. 29 • JJ Amaworo Wilson
“It’s a gift,” said the priest. “It’s an omen,” said the fortune-teller. “It’s big,” said the acrobat.Poetry
The Made World
No. 29 • Jenny Xie
We, who are made and unmade / by something we have no control over.Poetry
To save the cell-phone battery—
No. 29 • Kimiko Hahn
I keep looking out the window / because stopping cannot be seen.Poetry
Two Poems
No. 29 • Graham Foust
All I ask is to be brave in the face of it / and to be told what else to ask before your answer.Poetry
Two Poems
No. 29 • Matthias Göritz
It’s incredibly deep, people’s sleep / inside the downpour-machinePoetry
The Palace of Justice
No. 29 • Matthew Rohrer
Even the innocent / feel guilty stumbling / up those wide marble steps.Poetry
Underworld Lit
No. 29 • Srikanth Reddy
Sometimes I feel for the undead, sometimes the unliving.Fellow
Public AccessFamily Therapy
No. 29 • Kyle Francis Williams
There were holes in the story but I knew they were made by the devil’s horns.Fellow
Public AccessThis Is the Way
No. 29 • Sylvan Thomson
He felt himself to be ill-defined, sketched very lightly on the surface of the world.Fellow
Public AccessHeart Problems
No. 29 • Vicki Madden
I’d like to follow Flaubert’s advice and give you three vivid details about Violet, but I can only rely on news sources, which called her pretty and popular.Order A Public Space
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